WordPress Plugin: Simple Blog Stats

Updated July 16, 2018 • 9 comments

[ Simple Blog Stats ] Simple Blog Stats is a free WordPress plugin that provides a wealth of shortcodes and tags to display a variety of unique statistics about your site. Stats about your blog include total number of categories, comments, posts, users, tags, and more. SBS also displays recent comments and recent posts in posts, pages, and anywhere in your theme. Plus additional stats for Custom Post Types, word counts, and much more.

Installation

Typical WP install: upload, activate, done. Visit the SBS Settings in the WordPress Admin for shortcodes, template tags, and more information. No configuration necessary. SBS includes options for customizing the text/markup displayed before and/or after each shortcode and template tag.

Features

Statistics include:

Total number of posts
Total number of pages
Total number of drafts
Total number of comments
Number of comments in moderation
Number of approved comments
Number of registered users
Number of categories
Number of tags

More features:

Luxe toggle/panel Settings Page
Provides shortcodes to display stats in posts and pages
Provides template tags to display stats anywhere in your theme
Configure text/markup to appear before and/or after each shortcode
Option to restore default settings
Uses native WordPress functionality
Born of simplicity, no frills

Bonus features:

Display date of most recent site update
Display recent posts (configurable)
Display recent comments (configurable)
Display all blog stats in a nice list
Eat a bowl of ice cream :)

Options

For each of the shortcodes and template tags, you control the text/markup displayed before and/or after each shortcode and template tag. Here is a screenshot demonstrating this on the SBS Settings Page:

Screenshot of SBS Settings Page with shortcode configuration options

Additional options include:

Select the number of posts (for recent posts)
Select the number of comments (for recent comments)
Select the number of characters to use for post excerpts
Select the number of characters to use for comment excerpts
Restore Default Options

Screenshot of SBS Settings Page, streamlined and easy to use

Screenshots

Here’s a nice overview shot of the SBS Settings:

Screenshot of SBS Settings Page, streamlined and easy to use

Screenshot showing some available blog stats to display anywhere

Here is a complete view of the SBS Settings Page »

Note: Simple Blog Stats is a rebuild of the now retired BlogStats PCC plugin. Please upgrade asap if you haven’t done so already.

Download

Download Simple Blog Stats from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory:

Download Simple Blog Stats »

About the Author

Jeff Starr = Web Developer. Book Author. Secretly Important.

9 responses to “WordPress Plugin: Simple Blog Stats”

Chris 2012/11/06 2:43 am

When do you plan to put the plugin in WP plugin repository, so that I see from my dashboard when you have updates? Thanks.

Jeff Starr 2012/11/06 2:17 pm • Post Author

Soon! I’m finishing up the last of my plugin updates today and then moving them all into the Plugin directory asap. Working as fast as I can, just not there yet. Thanks for your patience :)

Cy-real 2012/11/07 12:55 pm

Hi
This plugin is great ! Very useful.

Can you say a litlle more about this :
“Display date of most recent site update”

But which date ? Is it the last published post ?

I’d like to display the date of the last published OR last modified post OR page… is it possible ?

Jeff Starr 2012/11/08 7:02 pm • Post Author

Hi Cy-real, that should display the date of the most recent post. Is it working for you?
- Cy-real 2012/11/09 1:47 am
  
  Yes, it works.
  But on my website, I often add and modify pages content, so the best for me should be to display the date of the most recent content (post or page, added or modified).
  
  Is there a simple way to do that ?
- Jeff Starr 2012/11/09 2:28 pm • Post Author
  
  This will be a feature included in the next update as a separate template tag/shortcode. Thanks for the feedback.

Alexandru 2013/04/09 11:42 pm

Hello!

I bother you with a question. Can I use this shorcode in a sidebar widget. And if yes, how can I do it?

Thanks for the time.

Jeff Starr 2013/04/10 1:09 pm • Post Author

Yes, just add this to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

That way shortcodes will be processed when found in widgets.

Justin 2013/04/13 7:28 am

Is it possible to configure the shortcodes to show blog stats over a particular time frame? For example, these are the stats I want to display:

– # posts in the last 7 days
– # posts today
– # comments in the last 7 days
– # comments today

Thanks!

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Chris 2012/11/06 2:43 am

When do you plan to put the plugin in WP plugin repository, so that I see from my dashboard when you have updates? Thanks.
- Jeff Starr 2012/11/06 2:17 pm • Post Author
  
  Soon! I’m finishing up the last of my plugin updates today and then moving them all into the Plugin directory asap. Working as fast as I can, just not there yet. Thanks for your patience :)
Cy-real 2012/11/07 12:55 pm

Hi
This plugin is great ! Very useful.

Can you say a litlle more about this :
“Display date of most recent site update”

But which date ? Is it the last published post ?

I’d like to display the date of the last published OR last modified post OR page… is it possible ?
- Jeff Starr 2012/11/08 7:02 pm • Post Author
  
  Hi Cy-real, that should display the date of the most recent post. Is it working for you?
  - Cy-real 2012/11/09 1:47 am
    
    Yes, it works.
    But on my website, I often add and modify pages content, so the best for me should be to display the date of the most recent content (post or page, added or modified).
    
    Is there a simple way to do that ?
  - Jeff Starr 2012/11/09 2:28 pm • Post Author
    
    This will be a feature included in the next update as a separate template tag/shortcode. Thanks for the feedback.
Alexandru 2013/04/09 11:42 pm

Hello!

I bother you with a question. Can I use this shorcode in a sidebar widget. And if yes, how can I do it?

Thanks for the time.
- Jeff Starr 2013/04/10 1:09 pm • Post Author
  
  Yes, just add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
  
  add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
  
  That way shortcodes will be processed when found in widgets.
Justin 2013/04/13 7:28 am

Is it possible to configure the shortcodes to show blog stats over a particular time frame? For example, these are the stats I want to display:

– # posts in the last 7 days
– # posts today
– # comments in the last 7 days
– # comments today

Thanks!