Compete WordPress Widget

Compete released it’s API today, so I decided to make a widget for WordPress using it.

Download compete.zip

SVN Checkout
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/compete-widget/trunk

This adds a link, your current rank, the amount of visitors, and your rank image to the sidebar.

By default, it looks like:

In the widget admin panel, you can completely edit the title, your api key, your host (by default, it’s the current host), the amount of time before the cache expires, and the ability to completely edit the display (see below)

Requirements

• WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with WordPress Widgets
• PHP 4.3.0 or greater (needed for function file_get_contents)
• API Key from Compete.com

Installation

1. Download compete.zip
2. Extract and upload compete.php to the plugins/ directory
3. Enable Compete Rankings in the Plugin admin panel
4. In widget admin panel, place Compete in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your API Key

Features

• Displays data about your site or any site you choose
• Edit nearly all aspects of it via widget admin
• Caching for large traffic sites

Editting display

You can edit ‘Widget Formatting’ to change how the info is displayed. To access the variables, use this formatting:

• %rank% – Rank of the site
• %icon% – The icon relating to your traffic rank (large or small depending on options)
• %count% – People count
• %host% – Hostname used in lookup
• %link% – Link to the compete page for the host
• %compete% – The compete link – Compete.com

The default formatting is:

<span style="float:right;"><img src="%icon%" alt="%rank%" /></span>
<a href="%link%">%host%</a><br />

Ranking: %rank%<br />
People: %count%<br />
%compete%

Download compete.zip