I’ve hard coded my tracking script into the footer of my wordpress theme, so previewing posts is always tracked within the analytics. No point in creating a custom exclude filter for my home and office ADSL line, as the IP address always changes as well. So the other solution would be just to exclude all “preview=true” URI’s from being tracked, to help having to see my previews in my top content pages breakdown in analytics.

It’s an extremely easy task to do. Simply sign in to your Google Analytics account and edit your blog analytics profile and select the option to “add filter“. You will need to use the custom filter option as seen below:

Once you’re done, you need to select the type of filter you are wanting to create, we are looking to create an exclude filter, so make sure you have the “exclude” option checked. Now you will need to change the “filter field“, which defaults to “visitor geographical domain“, to “Request URI” towards the top of the dropdown (dropup? ). URI meaning everything after the domain name, very different to URL.

Next, you’ll need to add your pattern. As this works in a similar manner to the head match option when creating goals in analytics, you will only need to add the common “pattern” that will appear in URI’s that you do not wish to track. Simply add your “preview=true” for the filter pattern, don’t forget to name your custom filter, then save. You are all done.

And you’re done! Remember this will only affect any new data tracked going forward and does take some time before you will see updated data within your analytics profile. As a side note, be very careful that the “preview=true” function is not used somewhere else within wordpress legitimately, as you may very well want to track that data.

Sometimes it’s best to tweak and customise yourself, than having to really on plugins to easily solve a need/problem. Hope this little tid bit of info may help some of you.

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Features a customisable dashboard, reply to comments from the dashboard and even re-arrange your posting screen to just name a few. Search and add plugins right from the admin area even upgrading the WordPress platform (now if i can just get my access permissions right on the server). I’m extremely impressed with the bulk editing update, which makes it so much easier to re-allocate posts to authors, etc.

Interesting new feature included is the “sticky post” option. All these new “toys”, it’s hard to decide where to start. The sneakpeak video says it all

I would love to see an upgrade to the media library, trying to upload and manage images gives me a headache and i give up and move on.

Once again, round of applause to the WordPress team. Let me get stuck into upgrading.

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So what does this mean, well, from the video above, adding Polls to your blog are just that much easier, you are now able to create a poll directly from within the wordpress admin area (for those without a PollDaddy account, not to worry, WordPress kindly allowed you to signup through the admin area as well )

It’s not part of the current standalone WordPress platform as yet, however they have enabled intergration of this feature on wordpress.com and have released a first version plugin for all those out there to test out and get your readers “polling”.

I’m going to try get this enabled on the company blog today, the timing would have been great to add to Sandy’s Apple post and test it out.

Once again, round of applause for the WordPress team, keep up the amazing work.

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One great new feature that got me all excited was the ability to sort your media library, drag and drop style, Ajax is amazing when put to good use

Updates like these just get you all excited to try and make use of the features, full avatar support as well for commenters across both gravatar, identicon and monsterID. Been dying to implement the avatar feature on the company blog for sometime, and this will be the perfect time. For those wanting to add it as well, found a great writeup this morning on how to enable the feature with some very basic PHP changes here, Gravatar Support.

Very short video highlighting some of the new exciting features:

It’s time i started to get stuck into my blog more often, i think i’m neglecting it, and with the features available within WordPress, including the plugins that offer so many nifty new options to add, i think it’s about time i paid a bit more attention to my little blog.

A big up to the folks that got this new update out, the admin area use of Ajax is so fluid and smooth, easy to use, it makes life alot easier for newbies and intermediates such as myself.

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After a bit of begging, finally have my own domain and blog. Since friday afternoon, the setup has, well, been a nightmare. Seems the new version, 2.5.1 of wordpress has massive changes including no author Bio page appearing anymore as in previous versions. Plugins are not compatible yet, so i’ve had a very limited choice in what to add to my blog from an admin side.

One frustrating issue, having to find a theme for the blog. Finding a appealing/eye catching design takes awhile, but actually loading it up and seeing what the design looks like live is disappointing. Thousands of themes later, and all i can come into conclusion is, the plain designs can’t handle what you really need. So be prepared for the look and feel of the blog to change somewhat as i get to grips with PHP and some basic design.

Must prepare myself to really get into development, only so much you can do without that knowledge, especially when it comes to work.

Anyhoo, but to the fiddling and tweaking, let’s see what i can get done before the new week

(postscript)
After taking a break and coming back, realised the author bio page only displays what information it has. (plus me not realising that author pages and extra bits and pieces are theme based) New 2.5.1 platform has quite a bit of functionality to it, if you know where to look. Now it’s just filling in the missing pieces and getting up to scratch on the CSS …. such a noob )

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