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title: "Three New Features for this Blog: a Post Index, Inbound Links Display, and Public Web Stats"
date: 2007-03-22
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# Three New Features for this Blog: a Post Index, Inbound Links Display, and Public Web Stats
Another new addition to my blog is the [Kramer plugin.](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kramer/) This plugin shows all inbound links to my blog (see the "Inbound Links" section in my sidebar). If someone links to me, the link appears in the Inbound Links section in the sidebar. Although I can also see inbound links from inside the admin dashboard, it's cooler to show them in my sidebar. The inbound links next to the comments shows the interactivity that's going on in the blogosphere related to my blog.

Finally, I added a [Site Meter](http://www.sitemeter.com) for stats. Unlike other stats packages, Site Meter shows a public display of my web stats, so others can see my traffic (click the [Site Meter link](http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s31writing) in the lower-left corner of the sidebar). Each day, an average of 98 people visit my site and spend 4:24 minutes reading an average of 2.3 pages. This tells me people come to my blog and read a couple of posts, spending about 2 min. reading each post.

WordPress has hundreds of plugins. It can be addictive adding these bells and whistles to your blog. Some plugins are truly worthwhile, and others just serve a specialized need. Previously, the plugins were scattered across different websites, but last week WordPress launched a [central plugin repository](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/).

**Update:** I modified Dagon Site Map generator slightly so that the index didn't appear with two levels of bullets. Here is the [modified plugin code.](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2007/03/sitemap.txt)

I also added this style to my theme's style sheet:

.ddsg-cats {
font-size:1.6em;
color:#2582A4;
border-bottom: 1px dotted gray;
}

It makes the category headings appear larger.