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WordPress FireFox extension

I often want to know how many hits my wordpress blog has had without loading the stats page, mainly so I can compete with a fellow blogger who sits opposite me in the office :P

So I made the MMD WordPress FireFox extension, install it and you get a tiny status bar panel that shows your current daily hits. You can right click the panel and hit “View Stats Details” and FireFox will happily take you to your normal stats page on WordPress.com

MMD WordPress Extension screenshot

MMD WordPress Extension screenshot

To Install:

The MMD WordPress FireFox extension is brand new! That means it’s an “experimental” extension according to mozilla.org and so it needs people to try it out and post a review to become publicly listed on the main FireFox addon website.

You can install it here – please add a review!

The Future:

I’m thinking about adding some stuff to do with the normal browser right click menu to add:

  • Add link to BlogRoll (when hovering over a link)
  • Post link to blog (which would just open the normal WordPress posting page but prefill the form with stuff link the link, title etc. ready for you to edit)

And other suggestions please comment!

48 Comments »

  1. [...] WordPress FireFox extension [...]

    Pingback by MMD WordPress FireFox Extension - know your hit count! « The Mac Daddy | August 5, 2008 | Reply

    • Thanks for the feedback :)

      Comment by mikemacd | August 21, 2009 | Reply

  2. so it works only on wordpress.com? And only for one blog, the first you registered?

    Comment by cyberpunk2020 | August 6, 2008 | Reply

  3. The Future: I would like to see stats for the other blogs in the same wordpress.com account, and maybe yesterdays…

    Comment by cyberpunk2020 | August 6, 2008 | Reply

  4. That’s right, only works for one blog at the moment (the first). If there’s an interest in it working for multiple then I can work on that.

    It gets the stats from m.wordpress.com so adding in yesterdays is nice and easy. Multiple blogs is possible, although m.wordpress.com has a bug in terms of displaying the names of multiple blogs for me :S I’ll work on multiple blogs for the next version… where would you want to see yesterday’s stats? I had thought about an up or down marker (today vs. yesterday) which could have yesterdays count on a tooltip….

    Comment by mikemacd | August 6, 2008 | Reply

  5. Thanks

    Comment by Guillermo Munguia | August 8, 2008 | Reply

  6. I had thought about an up or down marker (today vs.
    yesterday) which could have yesterdays count on a tooltip….

    Thats a great idea.

    Comment by cyberpunk2020 | August 9, 2008 | Reply

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  21. I’m having trouble downloading your WordPress Firefox extension. I keep getting the following message:

    Firefox could not install the file at
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/36426/mmd_wordpress.com_extension-1.1-fx.xpi
    because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption)
    -261

    Any ideas?

    Comment by FingersTX | September 6, 2008 | Reply

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  23. Thanks for letting me know FingersTX, I’ll look into this!

    Comment by mikemacd | September 7, 2008 | Reply

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  30. It’s would be nice to add blog stat checking on browser start.

    Comment by yarodin | November 29, 2008 | Reply

  31. Thank you!

    I installed it, but since I have more than one blog, I can’t see all of them. How do I change it to another blog or see all of them?

    My blogs: http://almmmm.wordpress.com (ALM and CM)
    http://tgefen.wordpress.com (ALM and CM – Hebrew)

    Thanks.

    Comment by Tamir Gefen | November 30, 2008 | Reply

  32. Hi yarodin, if you set your account details in the options it will automatically look up the blog hit count when the browser starts :)

    Comment by mikemacd | November 30, 2008 | Reply

  33. Hi Tamir, at the moment the extension only checks up on your first blog – multiple blogs will be supported in the next version though! Thanks for checking it out.

    Comment by mikemacd | November 30, 2008 | Reply

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  35. Nice idea – shame about the admob spyware!

    Comment by smog | January 4, 2009 | Reply

  36. At smog, I assure you there’s no spyware involved in my code, the only reason admob shows up in the status bar is because wordpress.com use it for mobile ad stuff or you have some other infection – there’s no spyware in this extension

    Comment by mikemacd | January 5, 2009 | Reply

  37. A little further investigation shows that the admob reference is indeed caused by wordpress.com

    This extension works by reading the mobile wordpress web page at http://m.wordpress.com/ which (if you look at the source) includes a reference to admob at the bottom which is a mobile web ad platform of some kind but isn’t spyware as far as I can see. Either way, this is a wordpress.com issue and nothing to do with the MMD WordPress FireFox extension :)

    Comment by mikemacd | January 5, 2009 | Reply

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  39. Hi,
    Its a cool add-on, I am searching something like this for ages. The only problem is that, i have my own wordpress domain. Can you update the plugin with the possibility to track my visitor activity from wp.mydomain? Then I can guess hundred thousands people will use it in their firefox.. :)

    Thanks for your job, its great!:)

    Comment by Guest | January 15, 2009 | Reply

    • Thanks for the feedback, I’m going to look into making this a bit more generic (supporting multiple blogs, supporting blogs not on wp.com) so hopefully I will get this done :)

      Comment by mikemacd | January 15, 2009 | Reply

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  42. If this would work on self hosted wordpress blogs that would be just awesome! Any chance??!

    Comment by sashasi | March 7, 2009 | Reply

    • It’s something a few folks have asked for, I’ll need to redesign it but it might happen

      Comment by mikemacd | March 11, 2009 | Reply

  43. Same as above.. it would be great to have it working on a self hosted blog and a feature I think would be REALY good is to be able to see the current users online in your blog..
    something like whos.among.us add-on
    https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/4694

    Comment by etche2 | March 21, 2009 | Reply

  44. Thanks for the information..nice extension :D

    Comment by Joltivan | August 4, 2009 | Reply

  45. Hi Mike,
    thanks for that great extention, it works good and keeps me in touch with my bloh, I really appreciat it and will recommend it.

    Comment by JNj. | August 20, 2009 | Reply


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