Your very own Vox site counter

Mar 25, 2007 at 12:51 AM
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*update* - you can now embed this in your sidebar

Here is a simple visitor counter that I wrote in Perl. It uses per site file locking with automatic recovery if an errant lock ever gets left around. I could have used a database, but that would of been overkill for something so simple.

You can use the counter on your vox blog if you'd like. First, copy this text:

<iframe src="http://voxr.net/sitecount/?site=YOUR_BLOG_DOMAIN" style="width:150px; height:150px; overflow: hidden;" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Then, go to the design section on Vox. Click customize your sidebars, check the embed box, and click configure next to it. Paste that text and then change 'YOUR_BLOG_DOMAIN' to your blog domain name, for instance: xantus.vox.com or just xantus. Click both OK buttons and then check your blog!

You should also pick the small embed type instead of the default.

Now you can set your own color!

You can use this color picker tool to pick your foreground (fg) color and background (bg) color and get a new url for your counter.

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Nice Job!

How about sharing ? :D

Xantus replied to princesse101’s comment:
Mar 25, 2007
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You can use it now :)

princesse101 replied to Xantus’ comment:
Mar 25, 2007
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thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!

yes!!! it works!!!

I neglected to realize that you needed the beta features turned on to use the embed feature :) whoops!

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how do you put it 'permanently' at the side bar? tks

You can't yet, but I'll ask about it.

Xantus replied to princesse101’s comment:
Apr 7, 2007
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You just broke over a 1,000 visitors. :)

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GJ!

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thx ;-)

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Cool!

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thanks for sharing

v. cool. works for me too. thanks for sharing.
do let us know when we can add it to the sidebars, please
found you via the "recently favorited in vox" feature. !yay!

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You're a genius!

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except now we know that no one visits our vox! ;-)

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You're so cool! Thanks!

Thanks!! This is cool :D

ok -- there wasn't an embed button to the right of collections. How do u turn on beta feature?

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Thanks!

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Ditto (and thank you for sharing!). And is there a way to not get it to count me? Any time I go to my blog to look at comments it updates the counter.

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oh thank you!
This is so cool. &:o)
And please do let us know how to display the little thingy permanently in the sidebars, when you know about that, too. (also --- what Grumpy Geek said...)
thanks again.

wow. you rock!

Thanks for all the kind comments!! I will ask about getting a site counter added to Vox.

@Christianity in the Raw:
You have to turn on your vox beta features in your account page first. Then embed will show up.

I don't know if anyone else cares or not...but...I changed the date on the post that I placed this in. I made it a year from now, so that it will always be at the top of my blog. I don't know if I will keep it there, I might get sick of it, but just an idea. :) Thanks again Xantus!

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Superb! And I totally loved that you made an angry face at me when I forgot to change "My Blog Domain"... LOL. Thanks a ton, I was just thinking that the one thing I'm not sure how to do in Vox is check my visitors.

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Thanks, love the lil guy counting. I changed my date like Tasha did too - it's so easy to lose things on Vox, even with the tags :o(

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Thanks so much! I have also taken the liberty to add this to my other blog with due credit.

Hey, good news.... you can change the colors of your counter to match your site.

Enjoy!

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:D SCORE.

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gooooooooodddd news!

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Hey the colour picker is neat!

BTW, I think my site counter is visible only to my neighbours. Why?

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You give me idea. I add frappr map to my Vox, look the result.

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thanks for sharing. ∧,,∧

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thank you! this is great. :)

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Thanks! This is soo cool. We were just talking about this (well, not this, being able to do this) in the car, we get home and wamo, there it is. You rock!

alright too cool.......yeah I thought mine was gone. It was just pages deep.

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Really neat! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

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This is great! One question, does it make any difference if you embed it in a public or private post ?

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cool! but why isn't mine showing up? just a little box with the url in it?

madtwinsis replied to lulubird6’s comment:
Apr 15, 2007
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you forgot to add the code... you copied the urlcode from the colourpicker but you still have to paste it in the other code; paste it over the text in bold and it will work (Xantus, I hope you don't mind this post... ) ->
<iframe src="http://voxr.net/sitecount/?site=YOUR_BLOG_DOMAIN"></iframe>

madtwinsis replied to lulubird6’s comment:
Apr 15, 2007
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(sorry, clicked "post" a bit too soon...)

so it should really look something like this:
<iframe src="http://voxr.net/sitecount/?site=YOUR_BLOG_DOMAIN&fg=FFFFFF&bg=000000"></iframe>

Thank you, Xantus. I installed your counter into my site. One thing I noticed is the counter (or perhaps any other code) didn't show to the public even if my entry was set to be viewable by the public. I set postings viewable by only family by default. So when I changed the default, the counter appeared to the public. I guess in the future users can control "viewable" setting for each code in "Organize" window.