dkukral

Joe Boydston

Logs and displays social site referrals
<h3>License</h3>
Copyright 2010 – 2014 Joe Boydston, Don Kukral
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USANo shortcodes yet .. but it does keep track of the number of referrals in the last 24 hours.
Two WP options are set with these values and updated whenever a new referrer is logged.
social_referrals_facebook_count 
social_referrals_twitter_count

Social Referrals

Plugin for WordPress logs social site referrals and provides shortcodes for displaying them.

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Post Views Counter

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This plugin is awesome. Hope it will be great for future too

Awesome plugin


I love this simple but easy to use plugin! 


Simple but good

great plugin


I've been using it for a few years as a parallel stats tracker for a pretty traffic-heavy site and it's been serving me well.



It's great for small and simple websites too :)


Stable and scalable

Post Views Counter allows you to collect and display how many times a post, page, or other content has been viewed in a simple, fast and reliable way.

Social Referrals vs Post Views Counter