Title: Compete widget
Author: sk33t
Published: <strong>March 26, 2008</strong>
Last modified: January 6, 2009

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# Compete widget

 By [sk33t](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sk33t/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/compete-widget.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compete-widget/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compete-widget/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compete-widget/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compete-widget/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compete-widget/)

## Description

#### 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](http://developer.compete.com/) (You can use the one
   supplied, but that is limited to 1000 requests a day)

#### 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

### Formatting

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%

## Screenshots

[⌊Default Display⌉⌊Default Display⌉[

Default Display

[⌊Admin Panel⌉⌊Admin Panel⌉[

Admin Panel

## Installation

 1. Download compete-widget.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 (optional)

## FAQ

  Nothing shows up when I try it or I get an error that file_get_contents doesn’t
exist

This script relies on the function file_get_contents to fetch the RSS feed. If your
host doesn’t allow the use of it, but allows the use of curl, you can replace

    ```
    $stories = file_get_contents($uri);
    ```

with

    ```
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $uri);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $stories = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    ```

  What does cache time mean?

It’s the number of seconds before the content will be requested again. You can set
this to be 0 or -1 to not use the caching system. If you edit any of the widgets
in the widget admin panel, the cache is cleared.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Compete widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed 
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ sk33t ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sk33t/)

[Translate “Compete widget” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/compete-widget)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/compete-widget/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/compete-widget/), or 
subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compete-widget/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/compete-widget/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 * Tags
 * [statistics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/statistics/)[stats](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/stats/)
   [widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compete-widget/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ sk33t ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sk33t/)

## Support

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