Social Metrics Tracker

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See which of your posts are most popular on social media! This WordPress plugin collects and displays an analysis of social media interactions and view counts of posts. A new dashboard panel is created called “Social Metrics” which shows how many times each post has been shared on various social networks. Get stats from these social networks: Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Google+, XING, and Flattr Focus your writing topics: Understand what posts your readers are sharing on social networks so that you can write more of what works well. Do more with the data: Export collected data to a spreadsheet for analysis. For web developers, this plugin collects and stores social metrics data in a way that can be accessed by other WP plugins or themes. For example, the social metrics could be used to display a feed of the most popular posts. Metrics are stored as custom post meta fields on each individual post. This is an advanced feature which requires writing custom code. Developers Guide This plugin stores social metrics in a way that can be accessed by other WP plugins or themes. For example, the social metrics could be used to display a feed of the most popular posts. Metrics are stored as custom post meta fields on each individual post. Accessing the metrics To display the total number of social interactions, get the post meta: <?php echo get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'socialcount_TOTAL', true); ?> Here is a listing of all of the available data fields which you can access in that way: socialcount_TOTAL, socialcount_facebook, socialcount_googleplus, socialcount_linkedin, socialcount_pinterest, socialcount_stumbleupon, socialcount_LAST_UPDATED Extending the plugin There are some WordPress action hooks which can be used to extend the functionality of this plugin. social_metrics_post_sync is called when an individual post is being updated, before new data is downloaded. social_metrics_post_sync_complete is called when an individual post is done being updated. Contributing to the project We have a Git repository for the project which you can access here: https://github.com/bcole808/wp-social-metrics-tracker