November 25, 2009

(English) Wordpress Plugin: Download Counter Visualization

Widget Chart example
Widget Chart example

last update: 2010-04-14

This plugin adds a widget to display download statistics based on the Download Counter plugin on your site. The sidebar widget will show a highly configurable chart based on the Google Chart API. Furthermore it offers a dashboard widget that summarizes your downloads, to get information quick at a glance.

The plugin supports following chart types:
  • Bar (horizontal)
  • Pie
  • Pie 3D

You can include a chart of your downloads on a page or in a post using the downloadcounterchart-shortcut. Of course a download chart is includable in your theme. See extended documentation for detailed explanations for that.

12 comments:

  1. Hello,
    I'm looking for a kind of the chart, but I need to visualise a number of tags in wordpress blog. Something like tag cloud trasnsformed to pie chart. Could be modified this plugin to do this?

    Thank you, Dusan.

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  2. Problem for me.

    When files have been downloaded the same number of times, only one appears (first in alphabetical order i guess..).

    How to make appear all files, even if they've been downloaded the same number of times ?

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  3. Hi, I think this is a bug I´ll fix it in the next week.
    Greets, micha

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  4. It would be great.
    Thanks for your work.
    ++

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  5. So, I've got some issues.
    Horizontal bar does not work since I update (1.3), and now pie(s) do not work without any changeof mine (???)...

    Problem with google api ? Or too many downloads (number increased since the update) can't be displayed ?

    So, just a few questions :
    1) Is it possible to limit the number of downloads shown (20 most download for example) ?
    2) Is there a simple way to display the "download counter" table witch is seen on the admin dashboard, on a page ?

    Thanks.

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  6. Hi,
    for me the plugin works, but I have not so many downloads. I have to test it with more data soon to give a feedback.

    as to 1): it´s possible and I´ll implement that feature
    as to 2): currently not, but it could be implemented as a shortcode, so that you can include easy it in post or pages

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  7. Thanks for your answer.
    1) Cool. Maybe such option could fix my issues.
    2) This shortcode would be really helpfull because, according to me, a table is clearer than image charts, especially when you have a lot of downloads.

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  8. Hi,
    thanks for the nice plugin.
    I have small problem, when I use the chart type to be horizontal bar it doesn’t shows the Arabic letters it shows squares!! but in the Pie or 3D Pie type its fine.
    can you fix this please?

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  9. Hi
    I have another remark
    when I try to download a file more than 2MB its not accepting !! it gives me html file not the target file!

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  10. The logic to create the pi request to google chart api is exactly the same for pie, pie3d and bars. Maybe its a problem of the chart api. You can try to get a bar chart by a self-generated get request to the chart api to reproduce that problem.

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  11. This plugin only generates the chart image. Downloads are handled by the underlying download counter plugin.

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