Then tonight is Geek Dinner with Robert Scoble. Even Danny Sullivan is attending.

Address:

Texas Embassy Cantina
1 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 3DQ [Google Map or Multimap]
Tel: 020 7925 0077
Fax: 020 7925 0444
Email: enquiries@texasembassy.com
Tube stops: Charing Cross, Piccadilly, Leicester Square.

But unfortunately I can’t make this either, due to prior commitments

The closest thing I could find was Counterize which deals with page views nicely, but doesn’t track RSS views.

As the feeds are served through PHP it shouldn’t be too much trouble to hopefully ‘adjust’ counterize to also track this.

However if someone knows of a blog stats system that already does all this, please let me know (I don’t want to use Feedburner etc though).

Firstly I didn’t want to have a dynamic url system, so opted to use WP’s ‘permalinks’ setup. But again I didn’t want to use their standard folder architecture that 1,000s of others also use e.g. blog.com/archive/2005/11/post-title.html. So I decided to use the following structure:

• www.nott.org
  • /home-page.html
  • /content-page-title.html
  • /blog/
  • /blog/post-title.html
  • /blog/category/
  • /blog/2005/11/ (archive dates)
  • /blog/feed/feed-format.xml
  • /blog/feed/category/feed-format.xml (category feed)
  • /blog/feed/post-title.xml (comments feed)

To do this took a few mod_rewrite lines in Apache:

[code lang="apache"]
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/blog/$ / [R=301]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.html$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php$
RewriteRule ^/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+).html$ /index.php?pagename=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+).html$ /index.php?name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)/$ /index.php?m=$1$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/feed/(rdf|rss|rss2|atom).xml$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/feed/comments/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+).xml$ /wp-feed.php?feed=rss2&name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^/blog/feed/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/(rdf|rss|rss2|atom).xml$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
[/code]

Then some small changes to some of the wordpress php functions (i know this will make upgrades tricky, but if I know what changes I’ve made, it should be possible):

/wp-includes/feed-functions.php

[code lang="php"]
function comments_rss($commentsrssfilename = '') {
global $id;

if ('' != get_settings('permalink_structure'))
$url = str_replace(".html",".xml",str_replace("/blog/", "/blog/feed/comments/", get_permalink()));
else
$url = get_settings('home') . "/$commentsrssfilename?feed=rss2&p=$id";

return apply_filters('post_comments_feed_link', $url);
}
[/code]

/wp-includes/template-functions-links.php

[code lang="php"]
function get_feed_link($feed='rss2') {
global $wp_rewrite;
$do_perma = 0;
$feed_url = get_settings('siteurl');
$comment_feed_url = $feed_url;

$permalink = $wp_rewrite->get_feed_permastruct();
if ('' != $permalink) {
if ( false !== strpos($feed, 'comments_') ) {
$feed = str_replace('comments_', '', $feed);
$permalink = $wp_rewrite->get_comment_feed_permastruct();
}

$permalink = str_replace('%feed%', $feed, $permalink);
$permalink = preg_replace('#/+#', '/', "/$permalink/");
$output = get_settings('home') . "/blog/feed/" . $feed . ".xml";
} else {
if ( false !== strpos($feed, 'comments_') )
$feed = str_replace('comments_', 'comments-', $feed);

$output = get_settings('home') . "/?feed={$feed}";
}

return apply_filters('feed_link', $output, $feed);
}
[/code]

template-functions-post.php

[code lang="php"]
function wp_list_pages($args = '') {
parse_str($args, $r);
if ( !isset($r['depth']) ) $r['depth'] = 0;
if ( !isset($r['show_date']) ) $r['show_date'] = '';
if ( !isset($r['child_of']) ) $r['child_of'] = 0;
if ( !isset($r['title_li']) ) $r['title_li'] = __('Pages');
if ( !isset($r['echo']) ) $r['echo'] = 1;

$output = '';

// Query pages.
$pages = & get_pages($args);
if ( $pages ) :

if ( $r['title_li'] )
$output .= '

';
endif;

$output = apply_filters('wp_list_pages', $output);

if ( $r['echo'] )
echo str_replace('/"','.html"',$output);
else
return $output;
}
[/code]

and

[code lang="php"]
function _page_level_out($parent, $page_tree, $args, $depth = 0, $echo = true) {
// global $wp_query;

// $queried_obj = $wp_query->get_queried_object();

$output = '';

if($depth)
$indent = str_repeat("\t", $depth);
//$indent = join('', array_fill(0,$depth,"\t"));

foreach($page_tree[$parent]['children'] as $page_id) {
$cur_page = $page_tree[$page_id];
$title = $cur_page['title'];

$css_class = 'page_item';
if( $page_id == $queried_obj->ID) {
$css_class .= ' current_page_item';
}

$output .= $indent . '