WP-Mint
About WP-Mint
WP-Mint is a plug-in for WordPress that integrates your site with your installation of the Mint stats software. It should work with every (well behaved) WordPress theme and there is no requirement to edit any theme template files or get your hands dirty with .htaccess, it will “just work”.
Current Version
Note: V1.2 of WP-Mint only works with Mint v1.23 or above, if you are still running Mint v1.x you will need WP-Mint v1.1.
Installation
To install or upgrade WP-Mint, simply download the latest release and copy the wp-mint.php file in your WordPress plugins folder. Then go to your admin console and activate it from the Plugins options page. If you have installed Mint anywhere except the default location (/mint) then you will need to go to the WP-Mint options page by clicking the Mint button on the Options menu in your admin control panel.
Change Log
Version 1.2
- Updated to work with Mint v1.23
- Renamed options tab to fit plug-in name
- Changed license to Creative Commons from GPL
Version 1.1
- Added option to output to either the head or body
- Rewrote options page code & reorganised options UI
- Options page now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Version 1.0
- Added option to turn Mint logging on/off
- Added the Test/View feature to the Options screen
- Re-worded the Options screen for readability
- Tidied up the code
Version 0.1
- Initial Release
Feedback and Feature Requests
I can’t think that it would need many more features but if any would be useful to you then please let me know by leaving a comment below.
November 27th, 2005 at 1:54pm
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November 27th, 2005 at 2:11pm
[…] Dave Verwer has updated his WP-Mint Wordpress Plugin to v1.2 which now works with Mint v1.23+. WP-Mint is a plug-in for WordPress that integrates your site with your installation of the Mint stats software. It should work with every (well behaved) WordPress theme and there is no requirement to edit any theme template files or get your hands dirty with .htaccess, it will “just work”. […]
November 27th, 2005 at 9:18pm
Would it be possible to add a checkbox to each item in the manage posts screen to turn watching on and off for that post in mint?
November 28th, 2005 at 3:58pm
This doesn’t seem to be working for me. The upgrade instructions in the latest version of Mint (which prompted me to update your plugin) say:
“The path should be updated from /mint/mint.js.php to http://www.yourdomain.com/mint/?js”
However, when I look at the source of my page after updating and activating the plugin, I see:
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Shouldn’t that path be absolute as indicated in Shaun Inman’s README?
I don’t think the stats are updating.
I’m using Mint v1.23 and WP-Mint v1.2.
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November 28th, 2005 at 3:59pm
Sorry. The missing code there at the end of my post should be:
{script src=’/mm/mint/?js’ type=’text/javascript’ language=’javascript’} {/script}
with
November 30th, 2005 at 7:09pm
thanks for making my life easier
December 1st, 2005 at 7:59am
@Tom
Thats a good idea, I will look into it
December 1st, 2005 at 8:01am
@Seth
The path doesnt need to be absolute as long as you are using Mint on the same site as your blog (which it should be to be supported by Mint, I think).
However I did notice in your path you have a /mm/mint/ in it, is your mint installed in that path?
January 8th, 2006 at 12:58am
Excellent plugin for Wordpress!
Just a small suggestion, would it be possible to create a mailing list for this plugin? It would make life easier as to when an update is released we will be notified automatically.
February 1st, 2006 at 2:13am
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March 4th, 2006 at 8:48pm
Hi,
thanks so far for your PlugIn, but I don’t know, if it’s working. In the Admin I changed /mint to /mint128 but I wanted to see some changes in mint. Seems that nobody visits the site anymore.
I’ve done it manually before, with changes to htaccess and auto.php. Now the only remaining changes are: with ‘mint128′ in header.php and ‘mint128′ in auto.php. Should I remove, or revert it to ‘mint’?
I use WordPress 2.01 de and K2 R168 with Mint 1.2.8.
March 5th, 2006 at 2:24pm
It will not update any .htaccess for you, if you are using that to get the mint javascript into yiour site then you do not need wp-mint.
however, wp-mint should still be working… if you view the source of an end-user wordpress page, does it have the
March 6th, 2006 at 3:10am
Why is your text cut off?
Does it prevent tracking mint from itself – so that mint won’t be counted as visited site?
I will test it over the next week.
March 6th, 2006 at 4:20pm
It doesnt do anything more complicated than automatically insert the JavaScript into your wordpress template.
It does not insert it into the admin control panel and it certainly doesnt put it into mint, however it also doesnt take it out of anywhere you have put it (for example .htaccess).
March 25th, 2006 at 11:04pm
… what if my mint directory is up a level from my wordpress directory?
say, my wordpress is in sitename.com/blog/, and mint is sitename.com/mint/?
June 18th, 2006 at 12:52pm
[…] It doesn’t stop there, either. I use Mint to monitor/analyze my web traffic, but it has a little trouble working with WordPress - I was going to be seriously bummed out, too, until I saw that someone had developed a WordPress Plugin Module that SPECIFICALLY is designed to integrate Wordpress and Mint - no hassle, no validation issues! […]
July 4th, 2006 at 8:36pm
[…] WP-Mint - OK, I admit that this is getting too easy. I use a plugin to make sure that visits are recorded in Mint. I know - for the sake of a line of code - but if you won’t tell I won’t . Anyway, this just goes to show how any need is catered for with WordPress. Hail WordPress! […]
July 4th, 2006 at 8:41pm
[…] WP-Mint - OK, I admit that this is getting too easy. I use a plugin to make sure that visits are recorded in Mint. I know - for the sake of a line of code - but if you won’t tell I won’t . Anyway, this just goes ot show how any need is catered for with WordPress. Hail WordPress! […]
July 14th, 2006 at 10:32am
Is there a screenshot for those of us who haven’t used this or mint before?
Sounds good though
August 9th, 2006 at 9:55am
I just wonder what the advantages are, compared to the stats I already have on my server?
August 10th, 2006 at 2:13am
This plugin worked flawlessly. Well done!
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:54pm
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August 24th, 2006 at 10:10pm
What if mint is installed in a sub-domain? example: http://mint.yourdomain.com/
October 24th, 2006 at 1:53am
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November 1st, 2006 at 3:35pm
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November 3rd, 2006 at 8:58am
[…] 3) A smart fellow called Dave created a Mint Wordpress Plugin, that links the product with the front end of Wordpress and gets it up and running on your blog with out doing any programming and mucking around with the java script. […]
December 3rd, 2006 at 7:25am
[…] On the Mint support blogs it’s suggested to simply use your WordPress database settings to get Mint running. This made me a bit nervous, so I setup a separate subdomain and database for Mint. All in all, with installing some standard Mint plugins and a neat WordPress plugin for Mint installation took me 45 minutes. Having done it once, doing it again on another site would probably take me 10 minutes. […]
December 11th, 2006 at 9:46am
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January 23rd, 2007 at 1:37am
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January 23rd, 2007 at 6:41pm
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January 29th, 2007 at 5:48am
Will this version be compatible with Mint v2?
Thanks!
January 29th, 2007 at 5:22pm
any word yet on MInt 2 compatibility? I know, it’s been about three hours now
…
January 31st, 2007 at 7:57am
Does this plugin also work on the RSS feeds? Do I still need to install the Bird Feeder Pepper and/or hack any pages?
January 31st, 2007 at 10:14am
[…] Instead of editing header files, I went the plugin route and installed WP Mint to take care of the javascript. After everything was up and running, I installed some Pepper(addon’s for Mint). I only ended up keeping User Agent 007 for now. Bird Feeder looks nice but I’m currently using Feedburner to track RSS subscriptions. If I can figure out how to properly setup Wordpress RSS feeds with Bird Feeder, I may switch. It would nice having everything all in one place. I did finally install the WP Feedburner Plugin tonight and removed all the hacky .htaccess stuff that I was using for Feedburner. WP Feedburner Plugin makes everything nice and neat and easy to deactivate if I decide to go with Bird Feeder in the future. […]
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:22pm
[…] I use Mint for stats and just upgraded from version 1.x to 2.0 as well. That was equally easy to upgrade, and there are some cool new peppers (er, plugins in Mint-land) for 2.0. It’s a paid upgrade but is worth it. The author, Shaun Inman, has done a fantastic job with the software and there is quite the user & developer community growing around this product. I’m happy to support their efforts! BTW, there is a WordPress plugin for Mint that automatically adds the Mint code to every blog page. […]
February 11th, 2007 at 5:37am
Hi everyone, I can confirm that this plugin does work with Mint 2.0.
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:38pm
[…] And Finally At The Very Top - Stat tracking is crucial to the success of your new blog. You need an easy way to make sure your tracking code insertion survives theme changes, and if you’ve got a new blog, you’ll be doing a lot of that. Most external stat tracking for your blog like Google Analytics or Mint is done by insertion of a small bit of javascript code in your blog pages. Using a plugin to insert the javascript instead of manually inserting the code into your theme pages will make sure the script is placed in your theme pages no matter what theme you are using. We are currently using Mint as our stat tracker. WP-Mint inserts the code tracking code without the need for us to manually change theme files. There are plugins that use the same principle for other stat trackers like Google Analytics. Again, if you’re a new blog, you might go through several theme changes and a small thing like re-inserting your stat tracking code can get annoying. […]
April 5th, 2007 at 11:29pm
[…] Nichtsdestotrotz werde ich ab heute Mint einsetzen, um statistisch zu untersuchen, welche Beiträge gerne besucht werden, wie die Feeds aussehen und ob man mich überhaupt hören möchte. Vielleicht schreibe ich auch nur Mist. Na ja, wir werden sehen. Für die Einbindung in Wordpress habe ich zwei Plugins benutzt, so dass ich nicht in den Quellcodes rumhacken muss: WP-Mint für das Blog und Mint Bird Feeder - Wordpress Plugin für die Feeds (welch ein Name…). Ach ja: Traue keiner Statistik, die du nicht selber gefälscht hast. Diese Icons verzweigen auf soziale Netzwerke bei denen Nutzer neue Inhalte finden und mit anderen teilen können. […]
April 7th, 2007 at 3:46pm
[…] A final point to help out any WordPress users is that there are two WordPress plugins out there that will allow you to fully integrate Mint into your site without the need to edit any templates or PHP yourself. WP-Mint will automatically insert the correct PHP into all of your documents without the need to alter your template files, making it easily reversable. The Mint Bird Feeder Mod alters your RSS, RSS2 and Atom feeds so that those statistics are tracked by the first-party Mint plugin called Bird Feeder. […]
May 24th, 2007 at 5:35pm
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May 31st, 2007 at 4:50pm
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June 18th, 2007 at 11:10pm
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July 4th, 2007 at 1:14pm
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August 2nd, 2007 at 1:50pm
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August 28th, 2007 at 5:40pm
[…] Nichtsdestotrotz werde ich ab heute Mint einsetzen, um statistisch zu untersuchen, welche Beiträge gerne besucht werden, wie die Feeds aussehen und ob man mich überhaupt hören möchte. Vielleicht schreibe ich auch nur Mist. Na ja, wir werden sehen. Für die Einbindung in Wordpress habe ich zwei Plugins benutzt, so dass ich nicht in den Quellcodes rumhacken muss: WP-Mint für das Blog und Mint Bird Feeder - Wordpress Plugin für die Feeds (welch ein Name…). […]
October 18th, 2007 at 10:05am
Have to point out that there is no attribute called language=”javascript” under XHTML 1.0 Strict.
For my usage, I removed the line from the plugin.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:57pm
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November 21st, 2007 at 2:07am
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January 11th, 2008 at 8:42am
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May 7th, 2008 at 3:38am
[…] This is a driveby-blogging: I’m still working on the contact forms that I broke last week. I’m also looking for a new theme for the Journal and trying to integrate my website analytics software with the Journal; I tried following the documentation to no avail, so I installed a plug-in. […]
May 29th, 2008 at 10:44am
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