At Crowd Favorite, we often have the privilege of working with some very cool clients. These last few weeks we worked closely with MailChimp to help release a WordPress plugin called Analytics360°.
Dashboard view of the Analytics360 plugin
From the MailChimp blog:
…it uses the power of Google Analytics to tell bloggers what kind of an effect they’re having on overall website traffic. We’ve made it super easy to tell if your blog posts (and email campaigns) are driving traffic to your website…
There has already been a lot of nice things said on Twitter, and over 1,000 downloads. Check out the video to learn a bit more about how it works:
Overall, this was a great team effort. The folks at MailChimp had a great idea, access to great APIs (both MailChimp and Google Analytics) and a lot of foresight. We at Crowd Favorite were greeted with the challenge and built one of the slickest WordPress analytics plugins out there (those visualizations are easy, but not that easy).
Did you guys do any testing with WordPressMU? I can’t get Google Analytics to authenticate…
We hadn’t, no. In theory, the plugin would just store the authentication tokens in the blogs’ options tables. Assuming that’s not the case, we can pass the feedback along to MailChimp for a future update. Thanks, Jake.
Have you guys seen this in testing?
The page you have requested cannot be displayed. Another site was requesting access to your Google Account, but sent a malformed request. Please contact the site that you were trying to use when you received this message to inform them of the error. A detailed error message follows: sitedomain.com has not been registered.
The domain for the example is in Analytics.
We’ve had a few people with this issue and haven’t had a chance to look into it. We followed the GA API so there may be some hints out there.
Devin
Your plugin looks great, and I’d love to get it working – only I get this error: “Could not connect (ERR 137013523: Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)”
I feel a bit cheeky posting here, but haven’t found a detailed support page for the plug-in, so hope you don’t mind!
I get this error when trying to log into MailChimp from my WP plugin page, and hopefully have ensured that the site uses PHP 5.
What do you think I’m missing?
many thanks
Justin
Hi Justin, a new version is in the works. But, this looks to likely be a server configuration issue. Feel free to visit the Google Group discussion page for the Analytics360 plugin.
Devin – thanks for coming back to me on this!
I have checked with my ISP, and they say it will cost £200! Meh
Not sure if you got my follow-up comment – i.e. my host wants to charge me an arm & a leg for SSL, so will wait for whatever magic you might come up with to get around this… :'(
btw I’m on v1.2 I think