Simple Statistics for Feeds vs Stealth Publish

Simple Statistics for Feeds (SFS) tracks your feeds automatically using a variety of methods, and provides a wealth of tools and options for further configuration and management. Also displays your subscriber count via template tag or shortcode. Fully configurable. Visit the “Simple Statistics for Feeds” settings page for stats, tools, and more info. 👉 Check out a feed-count demo in the sidebar @ WP-Mix.com Fast & Free Stop paying 3rd-party fees, track your own stats for free! Display a “feed count” badge like the once-awesome Feedburner Built with the WP API for optimal performance & security Fully compatible with WordPress Multisite Regularly updated and “future proof” Core Features Daily & Total – collect daily stats and total stats for each feed Beautiful Stats – view all your feed stats via the plugin settings Dashboard Widget – get a quick overview of your feed statistics Custom Feed Count – display any number for your feed count Custom Content – embellish your feed with graphics and markup Custom CSS – use your own styles to customize your feed stats More Features Shortcodes & Template Tags to display your feed count anywhere Display your daily feed counts for post feeds and comments feeds Options to clear cache, reset stats, and restore default settings Automatically track custom feeds generated via the WordPress API Enable “Strict Mode” reporting for more accurate feed counts Track feeds using custom key/value tracking parameters Works with or without Gutenberg Block Editor Tracking Methods Simple Statistics for Feeds provides four ways to track your feeds: Default Tracking – tracks feeds directly via URI request Custom Tracking – tracks feeds via embedded post image Alternate Tracking – tracks feeds via embedded feed image Open Tracking – tracks feeds via your own custom image Collected Data Simple Statistics for Feeds tracks the following data for each feed request: Feed type Tracking type Requested URL User-agent IP address Referrer Date ID You can view these data at any time by visiting the plugin settings. All feed data are displayed via beautiful, easy-to-use interface. View screenshots » Privacy This plugin records the user agent, referrer, and IP address for each feed request. IP collection may be disabled via the plugin settings. All collected data may be deleted at any time via the plugin settings. This plugin does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Simple Statistics for Feeds (formerly Simple Feed Stats) is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author. Support development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books: The Tao of WordPress Digging into WordPress .htaccess made easy WordPress Themes In Depth Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins: BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

This plugin allows you to prevent specified posts from being featured on the front page or in feeds, and from notifying external services of publication. Beneficial in instances where you want to publish new content without any fanfare and just want the post added to archive and category pages and its own permalink page. A “Stealth publish?” checkbox is added to the “Write Post” admin page. Posts which are saved with that checkbox checked will no longer be featured on the front page of the blog, nor will the post be included in any feeds. A stealth published post will also not notify any external services about the publication. This includes not sending out pingbacks, trackbacks, and pings to update services such as pingomatic.com. This behavior can be overridden via the ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter (see Filters section). NOTES: Use of other plugins making their own queries against the database to find posts will possibly allow a post to appear on the front page. But use of the standard WordPress functions for retrieving posts (as done for the main posts query and the recent posts widget) should not allow stealth published posts to appear on the home page. If you use this plugin, you do not need to use my Silent Publish plugin as that functionality is incorporated into this plugin. Alternatively, if you like the silent publishing feature but want your new posts to appear on your blog’s front page and in feeds, then just use the “Silent Publish” plugin. The plugin records when a post is stealth published, so subsequent edits of the post will have the “Stealth publish?” checkbox checked by default. Links: Plugin Homepage | Plugin Directory Page | Author Homepage Filters The plugin is further customizable via three filters. Typically, these customizations would be put into your active theme’s functions.php file, or used by another plugin. c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key’ filter allows you to override the name of the custom field key used by the plugin to store a post’s stealth publish status. This isn’t a common need. Arguments: $custom_field_key (string): The custom field key to be used by the plugin. By default this is ‘_stealth-publish’. Example: /** * Defines a custom meta key to be used by Stealth Publish. * * @param string $custom_field_key The default custom field key name. * @return string */ function override_stealth_publish_key( $custom_field_key ) { return '_my_custom_stealth-publish'; } add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_meta_key', 'override_stealth_publish_key' ); c2c_stealth_publish_silent (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_silent’ filter allows you to override whether the plugin also ensure the post gets published silently (i.e. without sending out pingbacks, tracbacks, and pings to update services). Arguments: $publish_silently (bool): Should stealth published posts also be published silently? By default this is ‘true’. $post_id (int): The ID of the post being published. Example: /** * Disable silent publishing for stealth published posts. * * @param bool $publish_silently True if the post is to be published silently. * @param int $post_id The post ID. * @return Always false. */ function override_stealth_publish_silent( $publish_silently, $post_id ) { return false; } add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_silent', 'override_stealth_publish_silent' ); c2c_stealth_publish_default (filter) The ‘c2c_stealth_publish_default’ filter allows you to override the default state of the ‘Stealth Publish?’ checkbox. Arguments: $state (boolean): The default state of the checkbox. By default this is false. $post (WP_Post): The post currently being created/edited. Example: // Have the Stealth Publish? checkbox checked by default. add_filter( 'c2c_stealth_publish_default', '__return_true' );