WP User Tracker PRO

User's Guide

• created: 03/10/2011
• latest update: 07/04/2013
• by: Pantherius

Thank you for downloaded my plugin. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thank you so much!

This plugin has a lot of function, but in my opinions, the best feature the plugin able to keep visitors on your website.
 How does it work? With a slide-in notification bar!

When someone had start to reading any post or page on your website, the other visitors will get a solid slide-in notification with a customizable text. (for example: Someone had just start to reading the following post right now: link)

The most of the users will click on it and the next users will get the notification again. With this method you will increase vastly the average session time. (you can specify the notification redisplay time in minutes)

Of course, the plugin has a lot of more benefits. You can set adverts to every category. The WP User Tracker Pro can track the most visited categories for each user and they will get a targeted adverts by category with this method. You can save unlimited adverts for categories. If you save more than one to each category, the plugin will display by random order.
You can track all of the visited posts, pages and categories by today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month and all time. If you don't want to display the inbuilt Counter Widget, you can view the counter's datas on the admin page. The widget datas are customizable, you can enable or disable the all time, this month, this week and today visitors, if you wish.

Possible to display the most viewed posts and pages widget with customizable number of elements and you can find a separated widget for the most viewed categories as well.

I hope you will enjoy the features of the plugin!

- four unique widget
- ajax slide-in user notifications div to the visitor, when other read any post or page
- absolutely customizable slide-in notification (display time, don't display again time) with the default style or with your own html code
- unique user counter with ajax (without page refresh)
- customizable counter widget with online users (enable or disable to display all time-, this month-, this week and today users)
- you can set up these numbers on the admin for test or for fake :-)
- display count of just now reading users on posts, pages and on the home page
- fancy tooltip window
- widget for most viewed categories (customizable number elements to show)
- widget for most viewed posts and pages (customizable number elements to show)
- the plugin store the most viewed categories by user and you can display targeted adverts for every user with a widget in each category
- you can save more adverts to each category, in this case the plugin will display the adverts for the users by random
- custom ajax refresh time
- set up the tracking cookie's lifetime
- enable or disable number of views text on posts and pages
- enable or disable online readers for posts and pages on the home screen and on the post page view
- ten unique icon to show online readers with fancy jQuery tooltip (the tooltip text is customizable)
- optional direction, position, text to display(with link short tag) and fadeout time for the slide-in user notification
- don't display again time for the same user
- save unlimited targeted adverts for each category
- detailed counter stats on admin (if you don't want to display on the front page)
- detailed sortable top posts and pages stats on admin with ajax search
- detailed sortable top categories stats on admin with ajax search

 

First, log in to the Administration area of your Wordpress website and select Plugins.

Click Add New on the top of the page

Select Upload on the top of the page again

Browse the plugin zip file from your computer and click Install Now.

Click on the Activate Plugin link and the plugin will be active.

After successful plugin activation, you will redirect to the plugins' list page.

You can find the WP User Tracker PRO plugin in the list:

Firstly, you need to set up the plugin settings now. Read about the set up in the section of Plugin Setup.

The most important thing you have to do first, set the timezone in the General settings.

If you miss out this setting, the plugin will not work properly. It is neccessary to store the right time for the user's visits.
After you set the correct timezone as the nearest city and you clicked on the Save Changes button, you can set the options of the plugin.

The plugin works with ajax requests (without page refresh).
You can set the ajax requests time in seconds with the Ajax refresh time option. Be aware to set this number too low, because this will cause your website slower. If you have a lot of visitors, you can set higher value than the default 20sec.

Visitors tracked by cookies and by default, the tracking cookies lifetime are 30days. This mean, one user will be increase the counter once in the 30 days. If you want, you can decrease this value. The results will be more unique visitors on the counter.

Display current readers on homepage posts: It will display an small icon and an online counter. (online readers of the posts)

You can enable the same option in the post and page views as well.

With position of current readers options, you can set the exact position of the icon and counter on the top of the post or bottom, left side or the right side.

Number of views: The plugin can display an another counter on the posts and pages. This mean the viewed times counter. (this is a text only, for example: Viewed 46 times)

If someone move the mouse cursor above the Current readers' icon, a fancy jQuery tooltip will appear. You can customize the text with the Tooltip's text option.

You can select the style of current readers block from 10 different icons.

 

On this tab, you can add custom values for the counter. It can be useful for test, reset the counter or just for fake counter. :-)
These are initial values and the counter will start with this numbers.

The slide-in notification is great tool to keep the visitors on your website. You can enable the notification on this setting tab.
If you use the default style, you can customize the notifications' text with your own value.
You can also specify the position and the direction of the sliding effect and a waiting time after it displayed.
Very important to set the next option: Don't show notifications again to the same user
Nobody like spams, so if the user get a notification, it's better to set the next notification time to few minutes later.
Recommended value is 5 minutes.
If you wish, you may define a custom notification style with html elements.
Pay attention to the [ and ] brackets and you have to keep the format. Possible to add a style attibute after the div class.

DON'T MODIFY THE ID AND THE CLASS PARAMETERS, because the notification won't display!

Example for a custom style:

[div onclick="document.location='{permalink}'" id="wpusertracker_notification"
class="wpusertracker_notification_{position}" style="border-radius: 4px;
box-shadow: inset 1px 6px 12px #CCCCCC,
inset -1px -10px 5px #CCCCCC, 1px 2px 1px black;
-o-box-shadow: inset 1px 6px 12px #CCCCCC,
inset -1px -10px 5px #CCCCCC, 1px 2px 1px black;
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 1px 6px 12px #CCCCCC,
inset -1px -10px 5px #CCCCCC, 1px 2px 1px black;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 1px 6px 12px #CCCCCC,
inset -1px -10px 5px #CCCCCC, 1px 2px 1px black;
padding: 10px;
background-color: #5D5D5D;
color: #FFFFFF;width: 500px;">
Hey! Did you read this?
[br /]
[center]
[a href="{permalink}"]
{post_title}
[/a]
[/center
][/div]

The plugin can track the most viewed categories by users. With this option, you can update the predefined General category advert and you can add new ones.
The General advert will display if the user never viewed any post or page, therefore the plugin can't decide which advert have to display. In this case, the user will see the General advert(s). You can specify many as you want.

If you save more than one to each category, it will be displayed by random.

You can insert any HTML or JAVASCRIPT code, but pay attention with JAVASCRIPT codes, because it can be damage your website. The Wordpress and the plugins uses many of javascript codes and can easily confuse any javascript code the website's performance or stability.
 

The values of the counter can be reach through the admin panel. If you don't want to display on the front page, you can easily view it on the Counter Stats tab.
The displayed arrows are relative to the previous period.

List of the viewed categories with a sortable table. You can use the ajax search field as well.

The posts and pages are gathered to an integrated list.

You can each this document anytime through the link on help tab.
This is just a shortlink to this install guide.

You can manage the widgets with the Widgets link under the Appearance menu on the left side.
After you drag the WP UTPro - Counter Widget to the Sidebare, you can set what informations you like to display on the front view.
 

Easily customizable title and number of elements to display. Simple, but powerful.

Display the most visited categories by the all time counter.

This is a similar widget like the Top Categories Widget, but you can handle it individually.

Display the most visited posts and pages by the all time counter.

The options of this widget can be set in the Plugin Settings.
On the widget page you only type the name of the widget. You don't need to specify any other options, the plugin will do everything.