AJAX Linktracker
Modules
This module allows you to track clicks on arbitrary links. You can use it to track file-downloads, outgoing links or even your internal navigation links.
All you got to do is to add an unique id-attribute to any link you want to be tracked.
The module utilizes javascript and a XMLHttpRequest to count the clicks. This has the disadvantage that you will not capture clicks by people who have javascript disabled . But on the other hand I see a lot of benefits. It uses no redirects which makes it pretty unobtrusive, your links look like always and there is no rank denial. It’s easy to apply to virtually any link on-the-fly. And it’s not triggered by crawlers but only by people behind browsers.
Simple Tags
Extensions
Modules
This extension-/module-combination is intended for tagging weblog entries.
Simple as in basic.
There really are no bells & whistles or shiny interfaces. Any custom field can be designated as a field containing comma-separated tags. When posting, updating or deleting an entry the tagging database table is updated accordingly.
If you happen to already have such a field, e.g. used for <meta name="keywords"> or the like, you can also re-index all your existing entries without the need to update them bit by bit.
Tags as in informally assigning relevant keywords or phrases to entries and being able to use this information to access them.
This version only supports tagging by the authors, not by your visitors. Currently there are no plans to change this.
Random Sticky
Plugins
On a website I needed a kind of “featured article of the day” to sit on top of all other articles. This article was to be pulled randomly from all entries of a particular weblog and was supposed to automatically change every 24 hours.
My first approach was to simply use:
{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" orderby="random" cache="yes" refresh="1440"}
While this was working in principle there were two drawbacks:
- I’m clearing all caches when new entries are posted.
- Using two weblog:entries-tags - one for the random and one for the rest - leaves me with the possibilty of one article appearing twice unless I use some extra code to exclude the randomly selected entry from the second list.
So my second approach was writing a small plugin that randomly reassigns the ‘sticky’-flag(s) in a given weblog in fixed intervals.
SEO gadget
Plugins
This plugin analyzes the referrer data stored in exp_referrers and displays search phrases, search engines, keywords , landing pages and rankings. It can also display data from the EE search term log in a cloud view.
It’s just a little toy for your personal information. You’ll probably want to use it on a non-public template much like the referrer-list.
Splitting up categories
Plugins
The purpose of this plugin is to split up the output of the {exp:weblog:categories style="linear"}-tag.
This can either be done by manually specifing an offset and a limit or by specifing a number of “columns” resulting in several blocks of categories surrounded by <div>-tags.
It has its origin in this forum thread.