Tag: feedburner

  • Feed Count 1.2.1

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    Tonight I downloaded the Feed Count 1.2 created by Francesco Mapelli. When I downloaded and installed his plugin it became instantly clear that he hadn’t updated it for blogs who had converted their Feedburner accounts to Google Feedburner. Everywhere I saw the plugin I saw an ugly “N/A” displayed where the numbers should go.

    So I fixed a few links in the feedcount.php file and presto… you see I was able to get it working.

    Looking at the creators site I can tell he hasn’t been actively checking complaints nor updating the plugin. With that in mind, I’m making it available here at adammclane.com. Hopefully, for other users who were liked Feed Count 1.2 but couldn’t get it working, this will do the trick.

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    Features

    – [New in 1.2] CURL support (more hosting provider are supported!)
    – [New in 1.2] Unsupported empty URL bug fixed
    – Customize the wording by altering before and after tags
    – Full CSS styles support
    – Customizable refresh time
    – Customizable link
    – Integration with WordPress administration panel

    Installing Feed Count

    – Get Feed Count zip file & Unzip it
    – Upload feedcount.php to your wordpress plugin directory
    – Activate the plugin from the plugins tab
    – Play with the options (Options -> Feed Count) to fit your needs
    – Be sure to have Awareness API for your feedburner account enabled (to enable it log in to your feedburner account, go to the Publicize tab, click on the Awareness API service and enable it).
    – Put <?php if (function_exists('fc_feedcount')) fc_feedcount(); ?> where you want your feed count to appear.

    Support

    I’m not a professional WordPress coder. But if you leave a comment I will do my best to help you get your problem resolved.

    If you like Feed Count, you should consider writing a post to tell the world how cool is it, maybe adding a link to www.mapelli.info and Feed Count homepage.

  • First Things First, How Most Mornings Start

    dawnI start each day pretty much the same way. Here’s a list of things I try to do in the morning. The days of grabbing a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper are long, long gone.

    1.  Download e-mail. This usually takes just a couple of seconds as almost everything I get is spam. Even if I get something compelling enough for a response I typically will wait until I am more awake. The only thing I’ll do right away (typically) is send out a prayer request if one was sent to me.
    2. Login to feedburner. Actually I login at least twice so I can check out the subscriber levels of YMX and my personal account. (With blog accounts for Kristen and I.) Here I’m looking for a spike in additions or subtractions. If it has spiked, I’ll update the YMX team.
    3. Login to Google Analytics. Since I’m managing about 20 websites now, this is my one-stop shop to see how everything is doing. (It doesn’t update live, so the morning is my first look at what happened yesterday.) Again, I’m looking for spikes and dips. For YMX, my blog, the church site, and any other site I’m paying special attention to I’ll look at the referral tab. I alway like to see how people are making it to my sites. The vanity search thing is sending us bucket loads of referrals lately. (People googling their name.)
    4. Check site rankings for my favorite search terms on Google. (No, I’m not checking out my name… I get emailed when that pops up anywhere on the internet!) But I like to know if there has been any shift in organic search terms I care about. In just the last 30 days Google has sent 4100 visitors to YMX… our number one referral. (Gospel.com is moving up quickly, love that site!)
    5. Google Reader time. I subscribe to about 100 blogs. My goal in the morning is to clear out the blogs… meaning I want to drop the number of unread things to 0. If it’s good I share it (appears on the left side of my blog), if it isn’t I don’t finish reading it. This is also my primary news source. So if there is something going on in the news I am depending on bloggers to cover it. This is also the source of my morning Bible reading, devos. (Check out RBC’s RSS page)
    6. Pop into YMX. That may surprise people but I only pop into the YMX forums a couple of times per day. I love having a great team of folks that keep the forums going! Patti is the forum-meister and the more I trust her, the better.
    7. Post on my blog. If there has been something on my mind or if one of these other steps brought something to mind that was compelling. I’m also becoming a bigger user of the draft feature, so sometimes I’ve got 8-10 posts that I want to work on when I get a chance. I also go through big “writing feasts” where I may write more posts in a day than I should publish… so I time them to release later.
    8. Publish stuff for YMX. I login to Google docs and see if there is something Amy wants me to publish. It takes me at least 20 minutes to publish an article, do the graphics, and pimp it out. If I’ve got time and it needs to get done, I’ll do it then. If I can’t swing it, it’ll wait until after work.

    How long does all this take? It depends on what I’m doing, how much time I have, and a lot of other factors. (Like getting picked by Megan to take her to school.) I can do all of this in as little as 5 minutes… or if I’ve got a lot of time, it can last all morning.

    What about your morning routine? What do you do?