Live

Version: 0.5

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Subversion URI: http://headzoo.com/subversion/live/trunk/

Requirements

WordPress 2.3 or greater

PHP 4.3 or greater

A browser with JavaScript enabled

Live is a free WordPress plugin that lets you watch your website activity in real time. You can watch as people are visiting your pages, leaving comments, and grabbing your feeds.

The display of site activity is similar to Digg Spy. Each page hit, RSS hit, and comment slowly scrolls onto a canvas.

Video of Live in action from FiddyP. You can see that as people visit your site, a new row is scrolled onto the canvas. It displays the page they’re visiting, where they came from (the referrer), and their IP address. All this happens in real time. In the video above, Andy from FiddyP was getting a spike of StumbleUpon traffic, and he was able to watch it happening in real time.

The main menu

Live screenshot

The details menu

Live details screenshot

The settings menu

Live details screenshot

New in version 0.5

  • Bug fixes (of course).
  • Viewing the Live menu is now restricted to admins.
  • A new settings menu.
  • You can now ignore your own traffic to your site with a cookie, or by IP address.
  • A new details menu, that shows you a break down of your traffic, referrers, and popular pages.
  • Can optionally expose your Live data via XML-RPC (To be used by third party programs).

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