Jon’s Showoff Rankings

Note: This plug-in is no longer being updated. For more features and a more convenient solution for everyone (not only WordPress users), check out the ShowoffRankings widget.

Overview
Jon’s Showoff Rankings Plugin provides a simple and elegant representation of your blog’s rankings. Currently supported rankings are:

  • Google PageRank
  • Alexa Traffic Ranking
  • Technorati Rank

Several aspects of the plug-in can be customized (see sidebar for an example):

  • Which rankings to display
  • Text-only/Graphical/Both

Download Jon’s Showoff Rankings Plugin v0.21

Installation Instructions

  1. Extract the downloaded file above to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin from the WordPress admin page.
  3. Configure your options from the Options page under Showoff Rankings.
  4. If you wish to display your Technorati rank, you’ll need your Technorati API key. Get it here after logging in to Technorati.
  5. (optional) You may or may not need to change the permissions on the jsr_cache.html file to 666 (rw-rw-rw-). To do this, in a SSH shell, navigate to Jon’s Showoff Rankings plugins folder and type the following:

chmod 666 jsr_cache.html

Upgrade Instructions

  1. If you have a previous installation, simply overwrite the old files. You don’t need to deactivate the plugin.
  2. Rebuild your cache.
How to Use

  1. If you are using Sidebar Widgets, there will be a widget there called Jon’s Showoff Widget which you can then add to your sidebar.
  2. Alternatively, you can insert the following code anywhere on your blog

    <?php if ( function_exists(‘jsr_display_rankings’) ) {
    jsr_display_rankings(); } ?>

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)How can I see more detailed information?
Hovering your mouse over the Technorati ranking will reveal more information (including back-links etc.) If you click on the ranking itself, you will be taken to a more detailed page (except for PageRank… there really isn’t much more detail you need).

My Google Pagerank is wrong
PageRanks are probably in the process of being updated. You may have to wait for a few days before the updated PageRank propagates through all the Google data centers. If you cannot wait for the update or if it isn’t being detected at all, you can edit “jons_showoff_rankings.php” and edit line 32 to set your own PageRank.

I’ve found a bug, how can I let you know?
Wonderful! You can either contact me via the contact page or leave a comment. I don’t have a lot of time but it’ll definitely go onto my long to-do list.

I have a suggestion for an improvement/feature
See above.

Do you take donations? How can I thank you?
I don’t take donations but I do appreciate the following: a linkback, subscribing to my feed, or adding me as a Technorati favorite.

Changelogv0.21

  • Allowed users to set their own PageRank if detection doesn’t work
  • Updated CSS to not conflict with users using a border styling on anchor tags

v0.2

  • You can now customize the title in the Sidebar Widget
  • Changed the way rankings are fetched to be compatible with both PHP4 and PHP5
  • Fixed a bug where you had to enter Technorati API key regardless of whether or not you wanted to use it
  • Can now display the ranking more than once a page
  • Fixed a:hover styling to be uniform regardless of page settings
  • Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports!

v0.1 – Initial Release

Acknowledgments

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