Today I am releasing my first WordPress plugin – Local Analytics. Though this is not the first plugin I have started working on, this is the first one to be released. The first plugin I started working on was WapPress – a plugin to make your blog Mobile Friendly.
Local Analytics is based on a program I wrote a few days back on how to speed up Google Analytics by locally hosting urchin.js and automatically updating it. The wonderful idea of creating a Word press plugin with it was suggested by Carl mercier. Carl is the author of the anti spam plugin, Defensio, which is still in beta stage. I have been been beta testing the plugin for the past few days and found it much easier to use, compared to Akismet.
Local Analytics is simple to use for a normal user and highly configurable for advanced users. Normal users only need to enter their Analytics Account ID, wheras advanced users can control the complete behavior of the plugin.
Please try the plugin and let me know your valuable comments and suggestions.
Nice stuff Joyce! This should be popular!
Thanks Jon. Do you know where I can promote the plugin? I heard WebBlogTools is a good option.