Post Volume Stats: Categories Per Month, Week, Days

Hi Monica,

Thanks very much for your question and also your review!

I think you’re talking about the line graphs on the Category/Tags/Custom pages. That’s a great idea! I have a blog with posts from 2006 to 2022, so splitting that into days or months would be a lot of data. As it is at the moment, even if you select a year the graph is always the maximum duration split into years. I guess if you select a year you should be able to see the days/months in the graph for just that year. There might have to be some extra options on those pages so you can select whether you want months or days.

Answering the question in your review as well…

Maybe the three time periods (years, months, days of the month) could all be clickable so that you can see the data for that period. That way you could highlight a specific month in a specific year, or just one particular day. Doing this would allow you to see which authors had the most posts during those periods. Ideally, all the time frame charts should be clickable including hours.

With “Weeks” there is the option in the settings to choose which day of the week is the first day of the week (Sunday/Monday) so we could use those preferences to split the data into weeks. With Years/Months/Days-of-the-month it’s quite neat because there is no overlapping, weeks can always overlap between two months or two years. Maybe we can’t have Weeks and Months both clickable, maybe there should be an option so you can choose to have either Months or Weeks shown then whichever one you choose can be clickable.

Have I understood your questions correctly?

These are all great ideas. I can’t promise when but I’ll start looking into these and see if I can make some changes.

Thanks very much,
Neil

Thank you for replying! yes “I guess if you select a year you should be able to see the days/months in the graph for just that year. ”

That would be awesome!, let me explain myself:
I’m skipping expensive online tools to count sales of different products, so every time there is a sale, the email’s author sends an email to a certain email address that it automatically identifies the author’s email and makes a post as that author and on their own category (same name as author), so with this I’m trying to have those charts, of how sales are performing during years, months, days, and super cool if hours too, each category is an author(or brand or product), each post is a sale, and having charts of that would be Amazing

Thank you again for your plugin! it’s really helping me!