µMint
µMint allows you to painlessly integrate Shaun Inman’s Mint into WordPress. Unlike the currently existent solution, µMint does not make use of iframes. Instead, µMint is designed to work with both the Exposé API, by Adam Livesley as well as the included API, µAPI for Mint. Furthermore, there is a development version of a connector which allows WordPress to directly query Mint, when the two share a database.
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µMint is really easy to install. In most cases all you need to do is enter your µAPI or Exposé API key. Even in more advanced cases the AJAX(y) user interface seamlessly walks you through the process. There’s also installation instructions.
µAPI does more than just get your stats, it displays them for you. You can have your choice of a sidebar widget, a dashboard widget, or both. And, in the µ plugin philosophy, stats are cached periodically to reduce the number of API calls required.
µAPI
Included with µMint is a super lightweight API for Mint. µAPI is 100% compatible with the Exposé API for Mint, as it’s largely based on it.
µAPI takes the Mint API to the next level by including more robust security, as well as standardized XML based error responses so that you client application can provide more meaningful error information.
µAPI is packaged with µMint, so there’s only one thing to download.
Who's Lookin'
Is there a possibility of further hooking this into WordPress.
I have WordPress MU network. I’m looking for a stats solution similiar to WordPress.com Stats
My wish is that my users have a link to their stats for each blog on the system without requiring them to configure anything. Possible ?
@Davi:
Yes and no, this is possible but it would be a major piece of code, and would probably require some extensions to mint as well. Drop me a line on my about page.
@Davi
That’s actually in violation of the Mint Stats terms of usage. Unless you’re paying for every subdomain you’re not allowed to use Mint for WPMU.
Is there a beta version that works with the 2.7 beta? I tried to install it and got this error:
Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in path.to/wp-content/plugins/micromint/microMint.php on line 300
Hi Chris. I’m trying to install on Wp2.63, and get the following error when attempting to activate the plugin:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /home/wp-content/plugins/micromint/microMint.php on line 122
That’s the ‘try’ line…any ideas on what to check/modify?
Thanks!
@Chris O’Rourke:
That’s the dashboard widget. I’m playing with the mechanism of updating the dashboard in 2.7. In the meantime disable the dashboard widget.
@scott:
Are you using a php 4.x? I believe that this is a problem with php 4 not supporting the try catch paradigm.
Yep, it’s 4.3.11. Is there a workaround that you know of?
I already have mint integrated with wordpress, the dashboard widget is the function I most want though. any idea on a 2.7 compatible release date?
@Chris O’Rourke:
I’ve actually already got the new version working, I simply need to add logic to use the correct method depending on which version of wordpress is installed.
A couple of days.
Just curious when/if the 2.7 compatible version was coming?
Sorry, am i being dim, how do i get the uAPI?
Ok, actually, I am having a challenge still. How do I get an API key? I’ve Googled this to death and I can’t seem to figure out where the API lives. Thanks!
Just peeking in again to see if there was anyway I could help to get the WordPress 2.7 compatible version of the plugin working better?
@Joelle:
Just make one up
Auto generation is coming “soon”.
@Chris O’Rourke:
At the moment, I’ve got my minor thesis due at the end of the week. If you want to work on the code, I’ll be happy to add you to the project. Alternatively, I really will try to fix it over the weekend.
It’s ok. I fixed it.
Hi there. I’m trying this with 2.7.1… when I’m in mint, my API is a bit of numbers inside brackets with the word RAND. Doesn’t seem right and it’s not accepted.
Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
@Tony:
I think I’ve answered this before. MAKE UP AN API KEY. Any string will do. Then copy it in both places. I have a bug open on this, but for now, do that manually.
Christopher,
I’m having problems activating the plugin! I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /nfs/c01/h06/mnt/37357/domains/blog.parfois.be/html/wp-content/plugins/micromint/microMint.php on line 122
Is there a sollution? I’m running the latest version of mint and the latest version of wordpress.
Greetings
Jonas Smets
@Jonas Smets:
Make sure you are running php 5.x. This is probably due to running php 4.x.
Both api’s keep giving parse errors when trying to enter any type of api (numeric or alpha numeric).
Anybody else struggling with registering the api?
Hi, I have an error when activating the MicroMint. It says “Error Parsing Stats: String could not be parsed as XML”. I dont really understand about the API Key. Is the API key the same with the API key that we use for another plugins like Akismet? Or the API Key for Micro Mint is different? If it’s different, how do I get the API Key for MicroMInt?