WordPress Blog Vitals Plugin – Show Your Blog’s Vital Statistics to Your Visitors

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Simple WordPress Stats Plugin to show various vital blog statistics to your visitors. Currently it can be used to show off the following stats of you WordPress site:

Google Page Rank
Alexa rank
Technorati rank
Feedburner Feed Count
Twitter follower count
Number of Blog Posts
Comments
Trackbacks/Pingbacks

If you don’t want the hassle of updating your “Advertise Here” page of your blog every few days with the important statistics then this plugin will come in handy.

You can also show the stats widget on your sidebar.

Blog Stats Plugin Screenshot

WordPress Blog Vitals Screenshot

Blog Stats Plugin Installation

Unzip and Upload the folder ‘wordpress-blog-vitals’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Go to Settings and configure the options eg. which stats you want to show off, caching time etc.
Use the widget, trigger text or call the php function to show the stats.

Blog Stats Plugin Usage

There are three ways you can use this plugin:

1. Add the following shortcode to a post or page to show the stats

[wp_blog_vitals]

2. Use the following function from a template (.php) file

3. Use the ‘WP Blog Vitals’ widget from the widgets menu

Blog Stats Plugin Settings

Here is a screenshot of the settings menu showing you what you can configure.

wordpress blog stats plugin settings

Additional Documentation

The following php functions can be used to display/retrieve specific stats:

<?php echo vitals_getpagerank(URL); ?> – Displays the Google page rank of the URL specified.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_alexa_rank(URL); ?> – Displays the Alexa rank of the URL specified.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_technorati_rank(URL); ?> – Displays the Technorati rank of the URL specified.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_post_count(); ?> – Displays the total number of blog posts.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_comments_count(); ?> – Displays the total number of blog comments.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_pingbacks_count(); ?> – Displays the total number of trackbacks.
<?php echo vitals_get_cached_twitter_count(“twitter_username”); ?> - Displays the total number of Twitter follower count.

Replace ‘URL’ with the actual URL of the site. For example, to show the Alexa Rank of tips and tricks HQ site I would use the following code in my .php (template) files:

<?php echo vitals_get_cached_alexa_rank(‘http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com’); ?>

The cached version of the function is used rather than the live one to improve page load time.

Donation Option

Donation option can be found on my projects page.

Download Latest Version (v1.7)

Download the WordPress Blog Vitals plugin.

I will be updating this plugin over the next few months and add more stats and other options. Feel free to leave your suggestions in the comment area below and don’t forget to subscribe to stay upto date.

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#1 by Shaun Dennis on September 5, 2012 - 3:24 pm

An awesome widget that keeps me satisfied

#2 by Usman on April 25, 2012 - 7:59 am

Well I would say awesome widget.

#3 by jenny on December 6, 2011 - 6:19 pm

outstanding widget

#4 by rumah on November 18, 2011 - 12:45 pm

great widget, help us get report position our website, thanks guys

#5 by Nadeem Khan on October 24, 2011 - 11:07 am

Awesome widget !

#6 by Daya on October 11, 2011 - 5:04 pm

Awesome! You guys Rock!!!

Installed the new one, set my cache to 0 reloaded the page and had my PR back. Then reset it to 86400 seconds (1 day) and we are back in business!

Thanks guys!

#7 by admin on October 9, 2011 - 10:24 pm

We updated the plugin so it uses the new Google PR API. Please download v1.6 from this page and you should be fine (Just give it some time for the cache to expire though… this plugin caches the result to improve performance)

#8 by Daya on October 9, 2011 - 8:22 pm

Using this, and loving it. Will there be an update that points the PR indicator to Google’s new pagerank server? I’m now showing everyone that I’m pr0 instead of pr3 and would like to fix it!

#9 by janifer on September 27, 2011 - 12:32 am

Thanks, cool plug-in.
Nice to have all important SEO ranks will be shown on screen.
I will try on my personal WP blog.

#10 by robert on September 23, 2011 - 1:44 am

Thanks, I will check this out.

#11 by digital @ ejercicios para adelgazar on September 6, 2011 - 11:06 am

Great plugin. I installed it now.
Thanks!

#12 by Ayesh on September 3, 2011 - 11:12 pm

This is awesome WordPress plugin, I am currently on blogger and very soon i will migrate to WordPress and than I will definitely install and try this blog vital plugin.

#13 by Mohammad Akif on August 27, 2011 - 11:15 am

Im using this one and its perfect!

#14 by Silvester on August 24, 2011 - 2:56 am

thank you Rahul for this plugin its now workin fine

#15 by Jay on August 23, 2011 - 4:50 pm

Hello- I just sent you an email via your contact form, just letting you know in case it hits your spam folder!

Really like the look of this plugin, and hope you can help us out.

Thanks,
Jay

#16 by Frank on August 7, 2011 - 3:26 pm

hey ive used this one truly workd great

#17 by Houston SEO on July 16, 2011 - 4:23 am

I have tried this tool and its really great .Thanks for your advice,it really is impressive.

#18 by Akif on June 25, 2011 - 9:41 am

i was searching for premium plugins and i found this one. Looks like better then all those premium ones

#19 by Oronno on June 4, 2011 - 10:46 pm

Thank You Ruhul Amin for this. Working great. You are a great man.

#20 by Rohfun on May 18, 2011 - 12:43 am

nice plugins

#21 by Martin on May 13, 2011 - 10:18 pm

I was searching it on Google from last 2-3 months!!!

#22 by Aliza Shehpati on April 13, 2011 - 5:34 pm

Thanks for the awesome code. I was searching it on Google from last 2-3 months. You make my task easy, actually I’m using technorati and want to know the status of it on my blog. Thanks a lot for sharing with me.

#23 by Melinda on March 11, 2011 - 7:24 am

This should be great to show future advertisers about our statistic.

#24 by Kamal Hasa on February 12, 2011 - 12:04 pm

Great plugin! I will be using it on all of my WordPress blogs..

#25 by Sotiris Bassakaropoulos on January 7, 2011 - 9:13 am

Love this plugin saves so much time having all the stats built into one plugin Thanks!
.-= Sotiris Bassakaropoulos´s last blog ..LinkedIn Marketing- Internet Video Marketing Tips – MarketingProfessorcom Weekly Wrapup =-.

#26 by Megan on January 4, 2011 - 8:35 pm

I’ve just put this on one of my sites to try, I think this is one of the better plugins of this kind. Thanks for the hard work you put into building it.
.-= Megan´s last blog ..Christmas is upon us =-.

#27 by John Gamings on January 3, 2011 - 11:32 am

What a nifty plugin. I really wish I had discovered this sooner, it looks like I can really put it to great use

#28 by Guy on November 25, 2010 - 8:22 am

great post thanks

#29 by Balaji on October 14, 2010 - 11:18 pm

Thanks for this great post – I will be sure to check out your blog more often ….

#30 by Zebhi on October 11, 2010 - 9:00 pm

Blog Stats is the one of most important feature. We can know the development of our blog everyday, everyweek or everymonth.

Thank’s for your sharing. I like this posting about Stats.
.-= Zebhi´s last blog ..Pasang Stats Gadgets di Blogger-Blogspot =-.

#31 by divilinux on September 19, 2010 - 5:51 am

OK…all seem to work, except google rank.
I’m shure that it will be fixed in the next version.
Thanx
.-= divilinux´s last blog ..L’idea geniale =-.

#32 by divilinux on September 18, 2010 - 7:03 pm

Thanks a lot.

.-= divilinux´s last blog ..L’idea geniale =-.

#33 by admin on September 12, 2010 - 3:21 am

@divlinux, I just updated the plugin. Please download v1.5 from this page and it should address the image not appearing issue.

#34 by divilinux on September 10, 2010 - 3:52 pm

Hi all
I’ve the same problem wrote by Ark’s both with wordpress version and tipsandtricks version.
No image appears…Hot to fix it?
Thanx

#35 by Ivy on August 21, 2010 - 11:50 pm

Hi Icechen, Yes this is compatible with WP 3.0.1.

#36 by Icechen1 on August 21, 2010 - 4:05 pm

Is it compatible with WP 3.01?
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#37 by mrwindowsx on June 11, 2010 - 6:36 pm

nice pluign, thats wonderfull.
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#38 by admin on June 3, 2010 - 5:04 am

I will add the twitter and facebook ones later.

#39 by NoteInBook on June 2, 2010 - 10:40 am

whats about twitter follower and facebook fans, i just miss it on my page!
.-= NoteInBook´s last blog ..Notebook Foren =-.

#40 by Bit Doze on May 12, 2010 - 4:45 am

This is a nice tool, I didn’t know about this until now I will give it a try to see how it’s works.

#41 by admin on April 17, 2010 - 9:46 pm

The stats are cached for the time you have specified in the settings menu. Give it some time so it queries the next time and it will automatically fix itself.

#42 by TheFourEyes on April 17, 2010 - 12:58 am

Installed latest version… No luck… And now Alexa stats read zero.
.-= TheFourEyes´s last blog ..Wouldn’t A Little Tortoise Joy Be Nice?… =-.

#43 by TheFourEyes on April 17, 2010 - 12:30 am

http://loscuatroojos.com/
In the sidebar towards the bottom… I’m downloading and reinstalling today… Hope it works… But please stop by and have a look. Thanks.
.-= TheFourEyes´s last blog ..Wouldn’t A Little Tortoise Joy Be Nice?… =-.

#44 by admin on April 10, 2010 - 3:33 am

Please post a link to the page where it’s happening so I can take a look.

#45 by TheFourEyes on April 10, 2010 - 2:32 am

Installed fine … But the numbers in the Alexa box are gray. Other numbers are not black either. How do I change them to be readable? Thanks for a nice plugin!
.-= TheFourEyes´s last blog ..Either Way.. You Are A Criminal!!!… =-.

#46 by aidicard on April 1, 2010 - 2:13 am