Jed's Performancing for Firefox extension has been great for me that last year or so. Lately I've been wishing that I could post to some other blogs/journals:

• Xanga - very closed system. I posted a forum topic that I'm starting a 'workaround' project to be able to post from Performancing. The only feature complete is authentication, but development is slow because Xanga likes to secure your account (add a captcha) after a few failed attempts of authentication. I can't work around that and I just have to wait for the secure period (usually an hour or so) to go away. *ruff*
• Last.fm journal - I found this tidbit on the Last.fm/Audioscrobbler web services page:
  
  

  We currently support a subset of the Live Journal Protocol for uploading and querying journal posts. Challenge authentication is not currently supported as we don't hold an un-hashed copy of the user's password so you'll have to make do with clear and cookie. I'm sure you'll survive but if this proves to be a huge problem let us know and we'll try to sort it out. Only the dlat interface is supported, if enough people can give enough of a reason to support the XML-RPC interface we'll put it on our list but until then, we just don't support it. Not all methods make sense in our context so below is a list of the methods that we support: * login * editevent * getdaycounts * getevents * getfriends * postevent The URL for the interface is http://wsdev.audioscrobbler.com/interface/flat/
  http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/#ljserver

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• Newsvine
  I had e-mailed the developers about adding a way to post to your Newsvine seed via XML-RPC. They replied that it would 'probably happen sometime down the road.' So in other words, it's not important enough.
  
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I'm scrapping what code I had for the PMetrics WordPress plugin v0.4 (don't worry, it wasn't that much progress) and I'm focusing on a complete redesign for an official 1.0 version of the plugin. Before I get further into development, I wanted to ask what features you, the users, would like to see included in the plugin. What I'm planning:

• Subversion repository to help me better organize changes and development (maybe host at wp-plugins.org once they get their domain expiration issues sorted out?)
• A project management page where end users can submit bug reports and request features (Trac, FlySpray, Drupal Project Module, Eventum, Mantis, phpBugTracker, ?)
• Improving the sidebar widget
• Displaying your BlogRank
• Graphs
• More detailed information (especially on individual post pages)
• Displaying metrics in your WordPress dashboard
• RSS tracking for those of you who don't use Feedburner redirection of your RSS feed
• Automatic detection/matching of the domain when you set up your Metrics at Performancing and option to redirect to correct domain (with or without 'www') so no metrics are missed
• On install, checks your blog's template to make sure you don't already have the Metrics code inserted yourself and that the plugin will be able to insert the code using the wp_footer hook.

Seems pretty good? It'll take some time, but I'm starting to look for a more office-oriented job rather than the restaurant I'm working at - it tends to drain me out and I don't get much time to work on outside projects. If you'd like some input or just want to feedback, comment away! Remember, you're still more than welcome to sign up for the PMetrics announcement mailing list as well.

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A slew of new features and code went into the new version (0.3) of the PMetrics WordPress plugin and I hope you'll try it out and enjoy it!

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I'm hard at work inbetween the PMetrics plugin and school at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, but here's a peek at what's to come:

• Tracking ignore customizable by user level
• PMetrics sidebar! (either as one simple line of code in template, or through the Widgets plugin)
• Much cleaner and robust admin interface
• Possible auto update check (option to disable)
• HTML/XTHML valid code output for JavaScript (See this forum)

The following features have been temporarily put on hold:

• Your blog stats reported under the Admin Dashboard (via the Metrics API)
• Possible detection when a template does not have the wp_footer() hook that is needed and inserts into header instead

If you want to be e-mailed when the newest version is released or any important PMetrics-related news, visit the PMetrics webpage and sign up for the announcement mailing list!

Simply put, PMetrics is a WordPress plugin to easily enable Performancing Metrics on your blog. For an example of PMetrics in action, you can see my blog.

Current version is 0.2

Compatibility

PMetrics works on WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.

Installation

1. Download the pmetrics.php file from the link below (or use right-click, Save Link/Target As...)
2. Copy pmetrics.php into your WordPress plugins directory (wp-content/plugins).
3. Log in to WordPress Admin. Go to the Plugins page and click Activate for PMetrics.
4. Make sure you have signed up for a Performancing Metrics account for your blog.

Frequently Asked Questions

Visit the website for the latest FAQ.

Problems?

Something doesn't work? Found a bug? Contact Me.

Download

To download, visit the PMetrics homepage.

Like It?

I enjoy these projects but it does take up a lot of my time. If you think this plugin is useful, please consider donating to my "tip jar" on the PMetrics plugin website.