I have opened a thread myself as well, without any replies. Requested help four times now. It’s a few days old and still no luck.
Anyway, I don’t know how much I can help you, but I have a few methods which should work for a plugin if you want to know the individual link popularity. Then you can try to search for plugins using these methods.
Method 1
Simple redirection. All outgoing links will go to “yoursite.com/linkredirect”, register the click in the database, and send the visitor to the website he/she clicked and wished to go to.
Method 2
Using Javascript, you can make an “onclick” event in the link to be executed before the visitor is sent to the website he/she wishes to arrive at. The onclick event uses AJAX to load a page (registerLinkPopularity.php) which registers that the link has been clicked in the database.
There are probably a lot more ways to do it, but I thought these sounded most reasonable and simple. The only thing the plugin needs to do besides registering link count, is to make a simple statistics panel in the admin section of WordPress, where it shows the (e.g.) top 50 links and their popularity.
As I said, I don’t know how much it’ll help, since you’re looking for an actual plugin and not a way to develop a plugin, but I hope it’s better than just ignoring your thread because I can’t come up with a final solution. ?? I’ll just have to cross my fingers for my own thread as well now. ??
I hope it put you in the right direction.
