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Hi Monica,

Thanks very much for your question and also your review!

I think you’re talking about the line graphs on the Category/Tags/Custom pages. That’s a great idea! I have a blog with posts from 2006 to 2022, so splitting that into days or months would be a lot of data. As it is at the moment, even if you select a year the graph is always the maximum duration split into years. I guess if you select a year you should be able to see the days/months in the graph for just that year. There might have to be some extra options on those pages so you can select whether you want months or days.

Answering the question in your review as well…

Maybe the three time periods (years, months, days of the month) could all be clickable so that you can see the data for that period. That way you could highlight a specific month in a specific year, or just one particular day. Doing this would allow you to see which authors had the most posts during those periods. Ideally, all the time frame charts should be clickable including hours.

With “Weeks” there is the option in the settings to choose which day of the week is the first day of the week (Sunday/Monday) so we could use those preferences to split the data into weeks. With Years/Months/Days-of-the-month it’s quite neat because there is no overlapping, weeks can always overlap between two months or two years. Maybe we can’t have Weeks and Months both clickable, maybe there should be an option so you can choose to have either Months or Weeks shown then whichever one you choose can be clickable.

Have I understood your questions correctly?

These are all great ideas. I can’t promise when but I’ll start looking into these and see if I can make some changes.

Thanks very much,
Neil

Hi @parkerboe

Here’s the only way I can think to do that right now. It’s not great, so apologies in advance.

What you’d have to do is select the tags you wanted on the “Tags” page of PVS, then “Export All”. If you want to show one tag per page, you’d just select that one tag. That will make a draft post with the graph on. You should be able to copy/paste that code into each tag page. Maybe there is a plugin that allows you to add HTML into the tag pages!? This will show a graph of the volume of each tag per year. It’s hard-coded so you would have to repeat it whenever you wanted to update the graph.

In theory, I guess it would be better to have a bar chart that could be used as a widget on the tag page and it would automatically update with each post and it would show the tag for the page you were on. I think this is a good idea. I can’t promise anything but I may have a look and see if I can add this functionality for you.

Thanks,
Neil

Finally added “comments per post” in version 3.2.02! It will only show approved comments for published posts (not comments that are not approved or awaiting approval).

Sorry it took me so long (:

Hi Johannes,

Did you like the days between posts chart? Useful? If you want to change the x-axis on that chart you can do so in the settings.

Comments… good idea. I don’t know when it will be but I’ll put it in the next version!

Thanks,
Neil

BTW, I re-worked the “Days Between Posts” in the new version (3.1.16). Also, “Compare Years” is also added. And “Words Per Post” and “Days Between Posts” are added to the widget.

This is the first bar chart where the “All-time” stats are different to the individual years because the individual years do not consider the previous post if the previous post was last year.

The default maximum interval is 30 days, but you can increase it up to a maximum of 80 days in the settings page. On my test blog, I had an interval of 318 days which was making the “Compare Years” script timeout.

I hope it continues to work for you.