Existence of the hit counter on the blog gives the chance to the webmaster to obtain statistical data about number of visitors, about that from where they came as behave and that interests them. These data help to evaluate audience and its behavior on the blog that will allow to find new opportunities for promotion of your resource in network. On the Internet there is a set of the various services allowing to install such counter on your blog. One of the most popular and demanded on the Russian Internet is the free service LiveInternet. It is simple to install the counter for the blog on the WordPress engine.
It is required to you
- - free service LiveInternet;
- - Notepad text editor ++.
Instruction
1. Visit the website liveinternet.ru and click "Receive the counter". Fill out the questionnaire with blog parameters, select a format and design of future counter. Here define type of your counter. It is possible to make so that the button of the counter was not displayed on the blog. In this case all statistics will be available in the account of service only to you. Password-protect access to full statistics in case of installation of the visible counter. Perform all these tunings on liveinternet.ru service.
2. Register and receive the code of the counter. Save the code as further it will need to be inserted in a certain place of the blog. Be defined where the counter button will be added. It can be inserted or into SideBar (side column), or into Footer (lower part of the blog).
3. Enter the admin panel of the blog to insert the counter into SideBar. Select the Design menu, the Widgets point. Select "Text" and drag it in a window of a saydbar. Insert the code of your counter into the opened window of a widget and click "Save".
4. Edit the file of the subject footer.php in Notepad ++ in order that your hit counter was displayed in a footer. In the text editor open this footer.php file and go down in a bottom of its code. Insert the code of the counter received from liveinternet.ru service into the end of the body tag. If you want the button of the counter to be beautifully displayed on the center of a footer, conclude the code of the counter in the div tag and make center alignment. Save footer.php and rewrite the file on the server.
5. Check operability of the blog after setting the counter. Open the blog. Look whether the counter button with the digits showing the number of visits and viewings by the end of the day and the last 24 hours is displayed. Make sure that the counter started working. For this purpose just click on it to get on the page of service where it is possible to receive full statistics.