Mint Bird Feeder – WordPress Plugin

[Update] – This plugin is stale

Sorry, but this hasn’t been maintained in a while and may be unsuitable for use in current versions of WordPress, since I don’t use it anymore and therefore haven’t tried it.

It’s also unlikely that I’ll be updating it in the future, but the code is out there and I heartily encourage anyone who wants to take it over / fork it to do so.
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Overview

This is a plugin for WordPress that will add the necessary handling to WordPress feed requests so that they will be processed correctly by the Bird Feeder Pepper for the Mint stat tracking system.

I came upon this today as a result of installing Mint and being curious about this particular “pepper”. I did a brief look around on the web and the only solution I saw for WordPress integration involved editing the core WordPress files, which I won’t do (as a policy). I ended up taking the code provided by Chris Hartjes on his blog, and putting it into plugin form.

Installation instructions

Here is the link to download the Mint Bird Feeder Plugin. Also available over at the Peppermill.

Assuming you’ve already followed the directions for installing Mint and the Bird Feeder plugin, simply copy this file into your WordPress plugin directory and activate it using the Plugin management page.

Additional notes

Comment feeds are currently not supported; no seed tracking will be added to them. Also, I have only tested this on WordPress 2.1, without any other feed-modifying plugins enabled, and with Mint in a separate database than WordPress; YMMV.

UPDATE – Version 0.7 supports “seed tracking” for links in the feeds.
UPDATE – Version 0.8 Incorporates bug fixes provided by Ron and Shaun (the Mint dev), as described in this post at the Mint forums.

Feedback

Hope this works well for everyone. Please post any questions / comments on the current release page for this plugin.

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4 Responses to “Mint Bird Feeder – WordPress Plugin”

  1. 9rules Ali and Update Your Feed Reader · cavemonkey50.com says:
    February 8, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    [...] with that said, if you’re looking for my BirdFeeder plugin for WordPress, look at this plugin instead. He beat me to release, and his is technically implemented better than mine was. I’m sending [...]

  2. Teddy Hwang » Blog Archive » Goodbye FeedBurner… Hello BirdFeeder says:
    February 11, 2007 at 1:49 am

    [...] files and the process will take you less than 5 minutes. Much thanks to JaredB for creating the plugin as well as contributions made by Ronald [...]

  3. Update your Feedreader! Im using Bird Feeder says:
    February 28, 2007 at 12:07 am

    [...] how to setup your bird feeder. If you’re scared to touch your WP core files, you can use this plugin that will add the necessary handling to WordPress feed requests so that they will be processed [...]

  4. WP-Plugin BirdFeederWP « Turmsegler says:
    June 23, 2007 at 6:31 pm

    [...] Jared Bangs has written the nice WordPress plugin MintBirdFeeder that modifies the WordPress feeds in a way that the site tracking system Mint can report the feed [...]