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WordPress Hit Counter is a simple plugin that embeds a rotating odometer style hit counter on your blog showing how many visitors your site has.
The plugin allows you to choose from a number of different styles, it can be embedded in the footer or activated as a sidebar widget. 
By default it will display in your footer, to change these settings simply activate it as a widget in your themes appearance section and change the options there.

WordPress Hit Counter

WordPress Hit Counter is a simple plugin that embeds a rotating odometer style hit counter on your blog showing how many visitors your site has.

Strawberry Jellyfish

The Jellyfish Counter plugin provides a widget and shortcode enabling you to 
easily add animated counters to your WordPress site.
Counters can be used as a manually updated total, an automatic counter that 
updates over time or just as an animated visual effect. 
Each counter can count upwards or downwards making them suitable for both 
incrementing totals or countdown situations. A great visual effect for travel 
blogs or any website that wants to display a running total or countdown of anything.
Jellyfish Counters are highly configurable through the widget interface, and 
being generated using CSS and JavaScript, they require no external graphics 
files. You may have as many counters as you wish on a page, all can have 
individual settings for totals and appearance.
Shortcode support allows you to generate a counter directly within any 
post or page content making counters no longer limited to your sidebar or 
other widgetable area.
Advanced users will find that Jellyfish Counter objects are fully accessible 
via JavaScript and may be controlled and reconfigured as desired though your 
own custom scripting.
<h4>Demo</h4>
Check out the plugin homepage for demos and further information: 
http://strawberryjellyfish.com/wordpress-plugins/jellyfish-counter/
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h4>Widget</h4>
Simply drag a counter widget to your sidebar and adjust the settings to suit 
your needs.
There are three basic modes of operation:
<ul>
<li>
Static – If you want the counter to simply display a non animated number 
just set a Start Value to the desired number for the counter and set the 
Counter Type to ‘static’
</li>
<li>
Animated – If you supply both start value and end value in the widget, the 
counter will increment upwards or downwards depending on the chosen Counter 
Type until it reaches the end value. Speed of the count is controlled by the 
Animation Speed option. Note, this counter has no memory, it will reset when a 
page is reloaded or changed but it is great for a visual effect where start and 
end values are relatively close together.
</li>
<li>
Continuous – If you want to count over a long period of time and need your 
counter to continue to count irrespective of page loads then just select the 
continuous option in the widget. Then choose the interval between the counter 
increments, in seconds. As soon as you save the widget the counter will “start” 
and will continue to tick away even if nobody is viewing your blog. Changing the 
setting on an active continuous counter will not effect the count value and it 
will keep count, if you wish to reset an active continuous counter just change 
the start value and save the widget and the counter will restart from the new 
starting value. 
Note: In continuous mode, animation speed and display tenths have no effect.
</li>
</ul>
The counters are very configurable through the widget panel. You can define 
the digit height, width and font as well as animation speed (animated mode only) 
and “bustedness” (odometer style misalignment of the digits).
You can further customise the appearance of an individual counter via the 
“Digit Style” input that will accept a valid CSS style attributes such as 
font-family, colour, background etc.
Note: the size of the font here as is automatically calculated 
from the height, width and padding settings.
Need a flat looking counter? 
“Disable 3D effect” removes the CSS shading effect.
If you want to display a prefix on the counter or include separating 
characters, use the Format input. Just enter a string here representing your 
desired counter appearance, a 0 represents a counter digit, any other 
character will be displayed as it is. The Format option overrides the number 
of digits option, if a format string exists then the counter will use the 
total number of 0 characters as the number of digits.
Example Formats:
$0.00
1,000,000
0000 km
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
You can generate a counter directly within page or post content using the 
[jellyfish_counter] shortcode. The shortcode accepts a full range of 
parameters to provide identical functionality to the widget version.
The following parameters may be used within a shortcode:
<ul>
<li>digits : a number, Number of digits in the counter</li>
<li>format : a string, representing any fancy display format</li>
<li>tenths : true/false, display tenths digit or not</li>
<li>digit_height : number, pixel height of digits</li>
<li>digit_width : number, pixel width of digits</li>
<li>digit_padding : number, pixel padding for digits</li>
<li>digit_style : a string, custom css styles for the digits</li>
<li>alignment : ‘left’, ‘center’, ‘right’, ‘inline’ overall counter alignment</li>
<li>bustedness : a number, misalignment of digits</li>
<li>flat : true/false, don’t show 3d effect, show 3d effect</li>
<li>speed : a number, 0 – 100, animation speed</li>
<li>start : a number, starting value for the counter</li>
<li>end : a number, ending value for the counter</li>
<li>direction : a, string ‘up’ or ‘down’</li>
<li>interval : The number of seconds between updates of a continuous counter</li>
<li>tick_multiplier : the number of units the counter will increment every interval (defaults to 1) </li>
<li>timestamp : false or a string representing the starting time for the counter</li>
</ul>
If you don’t specify a parameter it’s default value will be used.
Examples:
[jellyfish_counter end=100]
The above shortcode translates as: 
Display a counter that animates upwards from 0 to 100
[jellyfish_counter start=999 end=0 direction=”down” 
digit_style=”background: transparent; color: red;” flat=true; 
timestamp=”2014-09-28 9:20:21″ interval=300 ]
The above shortcode translates as: 
Display a counter that starts at 999 and ends at 0, counting downwards. 
It has red digits on a transparent background with no 3D shading effect. 
It is a persistent counter that started counting at 9:20:21 on 2014-09-28 and 
has been decrementing by one every 300 seconds (5 minutes) since then.
<h4>Styling</h4>
You can modify the appearance of an individual counters text through the 
widget control panel or through shortcode parameters. This should be 
sufficient for most uses.
However, if you need to globally override the default counter style or make 
other CSS changes to the counter digits or container, take a look at 
jellyfish-counter.css for the appropriate class names. You should override 
this in you theme rather than modifying this css file as any changes made 
would be lost when the plugin upgrades..

Jellyfish Counter Widget

Show eye catching totals with static or animated counter widgets and shortcodes. Classic retro odometer style or easy customise your own custom look.

WordPress Hit Counter vs Jellyfish Counter Widget