I was finally invited to preview Measure Map, a wonderful blog management tool (alpha release) from Adaptive Path.
- The tool has many nice features (and more yet to come)
- Number of Visitors (daily).
- Links (both in and out, with friendly search terms).
- Comments (Daily).
- Browsers.
- Countries (Compete with flash map).
- Popular posts
- Visiting Times.
- Events (yet to come).
I was in need of many of the features that it provides. I just hope that the licensing is affordable, as I still can't tell what features would be freely available in the final release.
Setup:
Their setup scripts are simple (but I had to fit them into Roller templates as it's not one of their supported engines (yet?).
In Roller's “Weblog” Template – Added the following at the end – (before the </body> tag)
<!--
MeasureMap Script
-->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tracker.measuremap.com/a/###"></script>
In the “_entry” Tempalte – Added the following at the end:
<!--
Measure Map
-->
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if(!mmposts){var mmposts=[];}mmposts[mmposts.length]="$entry.Id";
//--></script>
<!-- mmp mmid:$entry.Id mmdate:$entry.pubTime mmurl:$ctxPath$entry.permaLink mmtitle:$entry.title -->
As I don't have a “comment” template as per their recommendations, I had to hack the “_day” page to enable statistics for Comments (still not fully tested).
Before the end of “_day” template, within the #foreach( $entry in $entries ) loop I added:
#foreach( $comment in $entry.comments )
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if(!mmcomments){var mmcomments=[];}mmcomments[mmcomments.length]="$comment.Id";
//--></script>
<!-- mmc mmid:$comment.Id mmdate:$comment.postTime mmauthor:$comment.name -->
#end
Measure Map will sure be my first stop on my daily trip – Keep up the good work.
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