How-To
Checking your stats & inbound links from the dashboard
Description
If you’d like to check out who’s reading your blog, and how they tracked you down, the incoming links and stats features of your dashboard make it easy. This 60 second tutorial walks you through the process.
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January 5, 2009
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dashboard (7), stats, WordPress.com (18)
January 20, 2009 at 2:49 pm
So, if you host WordPress on your own server, you DON’T get this unless you use a plugin, right?
January 20, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I’m afraid so, but the plugin *is* seamless and speedy – more about it in Matt’s launch post for the plugin or you can grab it directly from the plugins directory, or of course the built in Plugins browser in your WordPress 2.7 installation (it’ll even install it for you, automatically).
[...] See who’s linking to your blog (1:01) [...]
January 25, 2009 at 3:53 am
So how do I get this onto my dashboard? I don’t seem to have it automatically on mine.
January 26, 2009 at 5:33 am
Hi dheiser – if you’re running a self-installed version of WordPress (rather than a hosted WordPress.com account), you can achieve the same thing by installing the Stats Plugin – you’ll be able to find it in both the plugins directory (see previous link) or through the plugin browser built into your blog.
January 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm
thanks! Now I’ve got it working. I appreciate the help.
January 27, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Great! Welcome to the world of obsessive stat watching
February 5, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Hi – I’m so new at blogging it isn’t funny – so bear with me for asking a stupid question. But I seem to have the most difficult time installing pluggins including this one. It keeps coming up an error.
Any ideas?
thanks!
February 6, 2009 at 4:56 am
Hi Karen – sorry to hear that. It *should* allow you to install it automatically right from the plugin browser of your WordPress admin. If you continue to have problems, you might want to have a browse of the plugins section of the WordPress.org support forum, or start a new thread there. There are some really helpful folks over there who will try to pin down the source of your problem and help you to fix it.
February 10, 2009 at 1:27 am
Nice template. Where can i download it?
February 10, 2009 at 5:28 am
The look you see is WordPress 2.7 standard, no templates required. For this functionality, you can download the Stats plugin for self-hosted blogs by running a search from your plugin browser for “stats”, or directly from the plugin directory
February 26, 2009 at 11:27 pm
i wonder what software that you use to create a screen capture for this tutorial? Tks
April 20, 2009 at 8:40 am
Checkout wp-stats-dashboard for a great stats overview :
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats-dashboard/
[...] – If you use wordpress.com you already have an excellent analytics package. They even have a great video explaining how to use [...]
March 18, 2010 at 12:26 pm
My wordpress is hosted by purenrg. To install the plug in, it says I would need an API key. Not sure what that is…
March 24, 2010 at 2:00 am
Please check the plugin control panel for more information; the API Key is always attached to a WordPress.com account. Please see http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/installation/ for more information.