The Post Pay Counter WordPress plugin allows you to easily calculate and handle author’s pay on a multi-author blog by computing every written post remuneration basing on admin defined rules.
The administrator can set up the payment values and all the avaiable settings, and immediately stats are then viewable from the related page where you can choose between general (all authors) and detailed (one author) countings. Below are all the avaiable functions:
- Counting Type: define the counting type you prefer between post words and unique daily visits. For the latter, a simple cookie will be used, and you have also some checkboxes to decide what visits you want to count.
- Counting System: choose if you prefer to pay with the unique payment system (eg. each word/visit is € 0.01, up to five decimal digits) or with the zones one (eg. from 200 to 300 words/visits it’s € 2.00, again up to five zones). Images added and comments received may also be enjoy a bonus.
- Old stats avaiability: once stats are computed, they’re not forgotten. In fact, you can view post countings since the first written post of the blog, doesn’t matter when the plugin was installed. When you first activate it, it just goes through all the posts in the dabatase and defines their values. A fancy date picker lets you shift between days and select the desired range. If something goes wrong, you can also regenerate the stats from a box in the options page.
- User personalizable settings: beside general settings, you can also define special counting and permission settings that only apply to a particular user. These different settings can be made viewable in the stats or hidden, depending on your needs, while admins and the post author will always see them.
- Trial period: another bunch of settings can be defined for the trial period users may be subjected to. The admin can then manually opt-in and out the trial option for single users or decide for the automatic feature which, relying on the number of written posts subscribtion date, will do the job.
- Highly customizable permissions: you don’t want your users to see stats and use functions they are not supposed to, and that’s the reason you can set detailed permission rules: nobody will see certain stats if you don’t want to.
- CSV export: every stats you see can be exported in csv files for offline consulting or storing.
- Overall stats: at the bottom of every stats page, a box with overall stats is avaiable with interesting details about your blog. Just keep in mind this feature is a bit heavy since it selects all the avaiable posts and counts them all, so it may take a while for these stats to be generated. If you want to save resources, you can disable it.
- Multisite compatibility: the plugin works even on multisite configurations of WordPress, providing separate countings for each blog.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can I include in the stats the posts published before the plugin was installed?
Of course you can. Just go to the plugin Options Page and use the Update countings button in the Update stats box. This can take the plugin a little or a lot of time, depending on the number of posts to consider.
The plugin hangs up when using the Update stats function
This happens when dealing with large databases. Try to increase the max_execution_time in your server’s php.ini file, and see if the problem get solved. Also, try to regenerate stats again and again: it will probably do it in pieces but it should work!
Can I reward differently particular posts/authors?
Sure you can! In the editing page related to the post you want to reward, create a new Custom Field named payment_bonus and give it the value of the bonus (add as many decimal digits you want). Those awards are then shown in the stats page already summed to the post payment and, also, in the overlay tooltip that shows all the countings. The admin can still disable this function or simply hide the bonuses. Remember that having this function enabled potentially allows everyone who has the permission to edit posts to award bonuses – either to himself or to others!
Can I change the currency (to USD, for example)?
The main point here is that, at the present moment, the currency symbol is not really important – not at all indeed. The euro symbol, in fact, is just a way to let you better distinguish payments from other numbers. Just set the plugin as if you were using your desired currency and then, even if in the countings payments will be shown preceded by a euro sign, pay your authors using those numbers and knowing that you are actually using your usual currency.
Can I pay all posts the same, without caring about words/visits?
It is not really an explicit feature, but again, the answer is yes. All you have to do is set the plugin to use the counting system zones, putting 1 as value for every Words/Visits n° column field, and the amount you want to give each post (always the same, of course) in each Payment field.
I want to personalize settings for a user, but I do not see their name in the list
Only the first 250 are shown in the list to prevent the plugin from hanging or slowing the whole page because of that part. To personalize settings for a username that is not in the list, click first on any other username of the list. Then, look at the URL in your browser and, at the end of it, put the ID of the user you would like to personalize settings for as value of the parameter userid. If you do not know what I am talking about, look at the image below.
I want to use 6-7-8-9 zones, is it possible?
Not yet. With the current zones system, you can only use either 5 or 10 zones. If you choose to use the 5 supplementary zones and then you do not fill them all in, the countings will break. I am working to let you handle from 2 to 250 thousand zones freely, stay tuned.
I am encountering a problem not listed here
Well, the obvious answer is contact me! But apart from detailing the problem you are experiencing, I also need some debug data to troubleshoot the problem and solve it quickly. To do so, you should open your post-pay-counter.php file, either by FTP or by the WordPress plugin editor, and change line 56 const POST_PAY_COUNTER_DEBUG = FALSE; and change it to const POST_PAY_COUNTER_DEBUG = TRUE; (note the semicolon is still there). Reload the page, and you will get a lot of debugging stuff: it does not contain any sensitive information, it just contains the plugin general settings and other similar things. If you feel like censoring something, you are free to do it, but please, do not delete the whole row, only replace the sensitive data with xxxxxx or similar. Send me the screenshot of the data, or copy it in a document, and let’s see what we can do! Just keep in mind that sometimes just saving your options again may solve the problem.
I need some custom features/improvements: can you do it?
By now, I am almost only adding features on demand with a payment. Quite a lot of people are asking for customization, and my time is very scarce. I usually do not ask much, but I put a condition: I am developing upon your request, but what I will do will be put into the public version of the plugin. You are paying me to do something that I would probably not do otherwise, but others will benefit of those changes as well (the same way as when they will pay me for some feature they need, you will benefit of those adds). Now the contact form is at your disposal.
Ciao Stefano, innanzitutto complimenti per il plugin, fantastico.
Vorrei chiederti, è possibile evidenziare il numero della visualizzazione degli articoli scritti accanto al numero delle parole per ciascun articolo, nelle stats di un singolo autore?
In sostanza, accanto al words count avere anche il views count?
Grazie, Atty
Ciao Atty,
Al momento quanto chiedi non è possibile
Buona giornata,
Stefano
Hi,
I’m waiting for the front end dashboard possibility, since I’m using user dashboard in the front end, so i hope the user stats (especially visits and earning) would be available in the front end, because I dont want user see my back end site
please help
Hello,
you can select what user roles you want to be able to see the stats page: this means that basically it is enough to have an account on your website to be able to see the stats. I do not get the problem: if you set the permissions the right way, as users are able to see their user’s page (which is already “backend”), they should be able to see the stats one.
Hope this helps,
Stefano
Ciao,
ho installato il plugin, volevo sapere due cose se è possibile:
1) Hai una versione italiana del plugin?
2)Le visite non le calcola univoche, ossia quanto un utente ad esempio accede da browser diversi con la stessa connessione vedo che conteggia ugualmente le visite, anche le mie stesse, esiste un modo per fare in modo che un visitatore non si faccia le visite da solo in questo modo oppure con iframe, scambio visite automatico etc? Poi volevo capire se era possibile e come si fa a impostare il plugin affinche’ paghi gli articoli al raggiungimento delle visite mensili dell’articolo e non di tutto il mese solare. Mi spiego meglio, se un utente posta un articolo il 9 aprile io devo impostare quell’articolo a scadenza 9 maggio, se raggiunge il numero di visite gli viene retribuito, se non lo raggiunge quel mese non prende nulla, è possibile fare questa modifica?
Grazie in anticipo,
Carmine Picariello
Ciao,
1) la localizzazione italiana non è, almeno per il momento, disponibile.
2) il sistema delle visite funziona tramite cookie di validità di 24 ore dalla creazione: come hai verificato, quindi, l’uso di browser diversi o la manuale cancellazione dei cookie porta al conteggio di una visita ulteriore.
3) tale sistema è abbastanza rudimentale (ragione per cui uno delle maggiori funzioni da aggiungere è, appena avrò tempo, l’uso di Google Analytics): quanto chiedi non è possibile al momento.
Buona giornata,
Stefano
Caro Stefano,
grazie infinite per la tempestiva risposta, infatti era proprio quello che volevo chiederti riguardo ad analytics, per quanto riguarda le modifiche intendevo a pagamento ovviamente, so che la personalizzazione si paga.
A presto,
Carmine Picariello
Avevo già pronto tutto l’ambaradam per Analytics l’anno scorso, ma poi Google ha rivoluzionato la piattaforma e il lavoro fatto l’ho praticamente buttato. Per il momento non ha senso fare modifiche consistenti al plugin, dato che vorrei rilasciarne una versione completamente rinnovata in estate.
A presto,
Stefano
Latest WP version update throws crazy errors in conflict with the latest version of your plugin. Just a heads up.
Thanks man for reporting that, I would not have noticed it. WordPress changed something under the hood without me knowing and that was the result. It would be awesome if when they make such changes, they also told plugin/themes writers, you know… It would be fine now with plugin version 1.3.7.
You’re quite welcome. Keep up the good work with the useful plugin.
Very nice plugin – I couldn’t find anything that came close to this. Unfortunately it’s close but doesn’t do entirely what I was after, and I am unsure as to how we would currently accomplish this with your plugin. Therefore some suggestions/feature requests:
1. The ability to have a ‘running balance’ instead of just seeing what someone is owed by specific time frames.
E.g. – keep a running total of the ‘earnings’ for each author – and the ability for the admin rather than marking it ‘paid’ to add specific payments to this running total. This is essentially just 1 database field for the users, and 1 field where the admin can enter the payment amount, which is then subtracted from the running total.
The remaining/outstanding earnings would be the total earnings minus the payments.
2. Currency customisation. I know, not that important as could be hard-edited in your plugin. But it would be nicer for most people if all references in the code were changed with a variable, and the admin interface allowed you to fill in whatever ‘currency’ you like. Be it €, $, £ or even “Points” or whatever other custom string people would like to add.
3. More granular rewards. A combination of words / views would be ideal. I read somewhere that you said this was complicated to achieve, so we’re probably talking a future version.
Please continue to support this plugin – there’s nothing like it out there right now and if you continue to add functionality and make it appeal to a wider audience you could really see this take off.
First, I would like to premise something. I am going to redesign the whole plugin because of the really bad design choices I took before the first release more than a year ago, adding features and fixing bugs has become harder and harder. For this reason, if you have any big request/advice this is probably the best time to say them. I do not know when I will do the redesign – and it will take me quite a lot of time -, but I want as many suggestions and major changes requests to be made, so that I can design the plugin consequently.
That said, point 1) is not clear to me: please explain in more detail what *practically* that would mean, what you would expect. Point 2) is fine, it is something that a lot of people have asked for and that I will surely put into the big redesign. Point 3) needs thinking: I must find a way to do integrate the two counting types that does not slow down the whole plugin.
Feel free to email me if you prefer (I do
),
Stefano.
Great Idea, but …
Unfortunately, it doesn’t do what my company or many others needs. Payment by the POST – not by the word. I pay my authors by the post a fixed amount. We get about 15,000 posts created a month, across a few hundred wordpress sites. Using your tool would make life so much easier if you had an option to track by the post not the word. It would also need to allow for custom statuses, so it should allow for Published, and for ignore status. It should also allow multiple revisions to count as just one post. If you can add this, we will be happy to donate. Please let me know if you make this revision to your plug-in.
Multiple revisions of the same post are already counted as one post only. Technically speaking, the plugin selects from the database only the posts that have a post type included in the ones selected in the plugin options, skipping by default any “revision”, “auto-draft” and the like. So this should be ok. Now for the custom statuses… are there custom stuses in WordPress? I did not know about, how do they work? I will work on the pay-per-post-and-not-per-word thing as soon as I have the time to do it. Bye!
Ciao Stefano penso che ci siano dei problemi con il plugin per quanto riguarda i permessi di visualizzazione delle statistiche parziali e complete per autore in quanto nonostante abbia provato ad attivare e disattivare i vari flag tutte le statistiche sono ugualmente visibili da tutti i ruoli e tutti gli utenti. Per la cronaca uso anche adminimize e role editor ma ho provato a disattivare entrambi e non sembrano essere questi il problema .
Ciao junkfood, hai ragione: c’era effettivamente un problema che impediva che alcuni permessi venissero presi in considerazione, non so quando sia stato introdotto. Con la nuova 1.3.4.8, a momenti disponibile per il download, il problema è risolto.
Nonostante l’aggiornamento penso che il problema persista Stefano, provando le varie statistiche con un account contributor non vedo nessun cambiamento, tutte le statistiche sono ancora presenti e nonostante le prova di flag unflag ancora ogni utente può accedere alle statistiche di tutti gli altri utenti e persino mettere i flag pagato e non pagato.
D’accordo, mi è venuto un dubbio. Hai modo di verificare il ruolo “subscriber” con cui hai fatto le prove a che livello utente numerico corrisponde?
Essendo un contributor dovrebbe essere level_5
ma se hai un suggerimento su come verificare il livello reale ti ascolto, comunque per sicurezza cambiando il livello utente da contributor a autore e poi ad editore niente cambia.
È molto strano, da me funziona… Le impostazioni con cui stai provando sono quelle generali o specifiche per utente?
Quelle generali Stefano, quello che non capisco è come verificare se ci potrebbe essere conflitto ad esempio con Role Editor che segnala tra i permessi disponibili per gli utenti anche quello di accedere alle statistiche. Disattivando questo permesso le statistiche scompaiono e quindi direi che è ininfluente visto che riattivandolo non si verifica nessun problema, se hai news ti ascolto volentieri
Nella 1.3.4.8 c’era un problema con i permessi delle statistiche generali e dettagliate, i primi due permessi visualizzati, per intenderci. Giustamente, se disattivi quel permesso lì, il Post Pay Counter non lo trova e suppone che tu non abbia i permessi per vedere le statistiche. I permessi di visualizzazione delle statistiche e modifica delle impostazioni sono una cosa a parte, sono loro che ti danno problemi?
Ciao Stefano hai sfornato un’altra bella bomba di plugin
Ti faccio i miei complimenti. A Presto
Pigi
Wpcode.net
Grazie mille Pigi!
Hi,
I’ve updated to version 1.3.4.1 but i saw a mistake. I chose “Use the multiple zones system” and did some chages for a user. I saved. Fields turned first statues: (200, 350, 500.. ) When I checked them in db by phpmyadmin, I saw they changed. I controlled Stats, I saw that there were calculated according to unique payment value, not zones.
I have used this plugin for a long time but I’ve updated first time..
Thanks a lot..
Hello Selim.
Yes, there is a problem saving some user’s personalized settings, it will be fixed soon.
Bye,
Stefano.
Hello Selim.
Version 1.3.4.5 should have fixed the problem you reported.
Bye,
Stefano.
Ciao
Innanzitutto complimenti per il plugin.
Ho riscotnrato un problema. Quando inserisco la mail paypal dell’utente, non me la salva.
Inoltre quando inserisco un solo campo delle parole minime da compilare, se non inserisco altri numeri di parole e relativi compensi, non mi effettua il conteggio.
Sapresti dirmi come risolvere?
Ciao,
Cionfs
Ciao Cionfs,
grazie per i complimenti
C’è effettivamente un problema nel salvataggio di alcuni campi delle impostazioni personalizzate, che cercherò di risolvere al più presto. Per l’altra anomalia, relativa alle fasce, è normale che accada: se vuoi usare il sistema a fasce devi riempirle tutte. Qual è esattamente il risultato che desideri ottenere?
Ciao,
Stefano
Ciao,
vorrei mettere solo una fascia.
Allora puoi metterle tutte uguali, avrà lo stesso effetto
Eh no. Non mi fa il conteggio così eheheh
Allora non mi è del tutto chiaro cosa vuoi ottenere. Vuoi che tutti i post siano pagati uguali? Vuoi stabilire uno soglia minima (la prima fascia)?
Allora… Vorrei che tutti i post abbiano la stessa soglia minima di parole per essere pagati.
Tipo 150 parole 0.50 cent.
Solo questo
Allora è quello il modo, riempire tutti i campi delle parole con lo stesso numero e tutti quelli dei pagamento con lo stesso numero. Cosa non funziona, in questo modo?
Non partono i conteggi
Hai effettivamente ragione, qualche recente cambiamento impedisce il funzionamento del metodo che avevo proposto finora. Temo che almeno fino alla fine di Agosto non ci sarà soluzione, devo aggiungere un ulteriore metodo di conteggio.
Se li metto uguali, non vanno
Non vanno nel senso che non li salva? O che poi i conteggi sono vuoti? Quello è il metodo testato da usare proprio per contare tutti i post allo stesso modo, è strano che non vada :S
Rieccomi. Piccolo aggiornamento. Anche con la versione nuova da lo stesso problema del non salvataggio delle mail di paypal.
Scusa il ritardo ma ero in ferie
1.3.4.7 problema risolto 
Ciao Stefano complimenti per il plugin, ho sempre cercato qualcosa di simile. Sto comunque provando a far funzionare la nuova versione del tuo plugin sulla mia versione di WordPress MU ma mi ha generato questo errore:
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Il plugin durante l’attivazione ha generato 1886 caratteri di output inaspettato. Se si nota un messaggio di “headers already sent”, problemi con i feed o altre tipologie di problemi, si provi a disattivare o rimuovere il plugin.
Grazie mille
Felice
Ciao Felice,
grazie mille per la tua segnalazione.
Ho appena inviato una nuova versione del plugin che dovrebbe aver risolto il problema ma, dato che in locale funziona a funzionava anche prima, non ho modo di verificare.
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Se dovessero esserci ancora problemi, non esitare a contattarmi di nuovo (ho spostato il commento sul post del Post Pay Counter
Ciao,
Stefano.
Mi da questo errore si puo fare qualcosa???—-Il plugin durante l’attivazione ha generato 1774 caratteri di output inaspettato. Se si nota un messaggio di “headers already sent”, problemi con i feed o altre tipologie di problemi, si provi a disattivare o rimuovere il plugin.
nemmeno con la nuova versione funziona anzi scompare proprio
Con la 1.3.2 dovrei aver (spero) risolto definitivamente il problema!
Ciao,
Stefano
ora da questo errore
Il plugin non può essere attivato perché genera un errore fatale. Fatal error: Call to a member function has_cap() on a non-object in /membri/ilcinemagratis/wp-content/plugins/post-pay-counter/post-pay-counter-functions.php on line 154
Stefano ho aggiornato ma continua a darmi questo errore: Warning: array_intersect() [function.array-intersect]: Argument #1 is not an array in /var/www/vhosts/ow-wpmu.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/post-pay-counter/post-pay-counter-functions.php on line 140
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peccato e un plugin magnifico ma continua a non funzionare
Capisco il disagio causato da un aggiornamento non funzionante, e me ne scuso. Ricevo segnalazioni discordanti, un po’ da persone che hanno risolto i loro problemi con l’ultima versione, e un po’ invece da chi continua a ricevere errori. Sto ancora cercando di risolvere, non ho gettato la spugna.
Comunico che ho appena rilasciato la versione 1.3.3. Per favore, mi potete confermare che tutto è risolto?
Do you have any way to reset the accumulated value of the users will better explain
I’m willing to pay for post created, but can not afford so automatically so I wanted to pay direct this money in his account, but have not found any way to reset the money he already won for me it is missing only in order to usufluir this progam
Yes, you can do that. There is button to regenerate stats at the bottom of the options page.
ciao stefano ora si vede ma senza risultati ora mi esce scritto cosi
Il plugin durante l’attivazione ha generato 419 caratteri di output inaspettato. Se si nota un messaggio di “headers already sent”, problemi con i feed o altre tipologie di problemi, si provi a disattivare o rimuovere il plugin.
e questo quando cancellato e o ristallato
Il plugin durante l’attivazione ha generato 3967 caratteri di output inaspettato. Se si nota un messaggio di “headers already sent”, problemi con i feed o altre tipologie di problemi, si provi a disattivare o rimuovere il plugin.
grazie del lavoro
Salvatore
Me ne ero accorto, ma mi premeva rilasciare una versione che, output inaspettato a parte, funzionasse. Se vedi le voci di menu e puoi modificare le impostazioni, significa che è tutto a posto. Disinstallando e reinstallando il plugin si perdono dati dei conteggi e impostazioni, questo è normale. Se vuoi rigenerare tutti i conteggi, puoi usare il pulsante Update stats countings nella pagina delle opzioni.
Rimango disponibile per qualunque cosa,
Stefano.
First off, thanks a lot for this plugin, it really is a blessing for a lot of us
I’m having though a little issue with it… I installed it today and it registers only 1 unique visitor per post, no matter what post is. Can you tell me if it is a common issue, or give me any clue on how to solve it?
Thanks
(It may not seem clear in my message, but I was referring to my legacy posts, most of them with a couple hundred unique visitors)
Hello!
First, keep in mind that the plugin starts countings visits from the moment you activate the visits counting type: it is not, if so I can say, retroactive, it does not apply to old visits. Moreover, visitors must have cookies enabled.
But if you are sure it is not working, please try opening your wp-config.php file, locate define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false); and change it to define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); . Then, delete your browser cookies and try to visit a post page, see if any error appears and copy it here.
Stefano.
Hi Crowned..Thanks a lot for this very useful plugin.But Im missing some thing that i was in need.Im allowing my visitors to submit reviews(comments). So, I’m thinking to pay them even for commenting..How to do that using this plugin.Please help me out.
I fear you cannot do what you are asking for. The plugin allows you to pay authors whose articles were commented more than a fixed number of times. So, for example, if user A writes a post B, and that posts gets more than, say, 50 comments, post B is paid a little more. But if user A comments on another post C, it is not awarded anything. Tell me if have misunderstood your intentions
I want to give money even for posting comments to others posts.As mine is a review site.It will help me to generate more reviews.Guess you got me now.Is there any way to hack the code to make this functionality happen.
My Suggestions:
1.Make a option to admin to give money for every activity done by an user.Activities include sharing posts to his friends on social networking sites( Facebook, twitter),posting comments,writing posts.
2.Make even subscribers payable for doing these actions.
3.Integrate a Paypal option where a user can be paid directly by admin from his console.
4.Display user his income on front end instead of looking in wordpress panel
I think these changes will make this plugin stand top for ever with these changes.You can even make it a paid plugin.I hope my suggestions helps you..
Thank your for taking some time to write down your suggestions. Suggestions #2 and #3 will probably be included in the next releases since they were already planned, #1 is quite a difficult one and I can’t grant you it will be implemented.
Bye
Complimenti, spero tu continuerai con lo sviluppo del plugin
What could be the problem if my settings doesn’t save when i push the “Save Option” button?
Thanks, this plugins seems to be exactly what im looking for!
+ in the stats page… it says “You are not authorized to view this page ” ???
Is there a particular settings it does not seem to save or is it the whole page? Would you please change your WP_DEBUG constant to TRUE in your wp.config.php file, then try to Save Options again and take a screenshot of the errors that may be displayed? That would surely help to better understand and diagnose your problem
salve esiste anche in italiano questo plug-in?
Non esiste alcuna localizzazione italiana, ma il plugin in lingua inglese funziona senza problemi anche su blog italiani.
hi – great plugin!
when i attempt to add payment options, i click the ‘save options’ button at the bottom, but it doesn’t save what i entered into the fields. i’m clicking on the button and not hitting ‘enter.’
fyi i’m using the chrome 18.0.1025.3 dev browser on a mac
thanks!
Hello.
Please enable the Debug Mode in WordPress by setting the WP_DEBUG constant in wp-config.php; then try again to save options again and see if any error message is returned.
Let me know
thanks for the quick reply!
just to make sure i’m doing this right, in wp-config.php, i changed this: define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
to this: define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
i got back a lot of error messages on the Post Pay Counter Options page as well as on the site itself.
is there a particular error i should look for?
Actually, it should have gone from false to true, but if you got the errors… well, that is what we were looking for! Please take a screnshot both of the Options and the Stats page, upload them on imageshack.us or similar and then post the links
Also, take a screenshot after clicking the Save Options button with all the errors
Hi,
Is it possible to reset the post pay counter?
Hello,
yes, it is possible. You should use the “Update stats countings and dates” button in the Settings Page. It may take a few minutes.
Добрый день. А как перевести файлы: post-pay-counter.php, post-pay-counter-functions.php, post-pay-counter-install-routine.php, CSV в utf8.
у меня всё в ����� ����������: ??????????????
Спасибо.
I cannot understand Russian nor is Google Translate able to provide a sensible translation: would you write in English, please?
Hello.
Thanks for the quick response.
How to transfer files: post-pay-counter.php, post-pay-counter-functions.php, post-pay-counter-install-routine.php, CSV in charset=UTF-8. In charset =1251 I see: ����� ����������:
Thank you.
It is still not clear: do you have problems with the csv file, or there is something else?
Good day.
Thanks for your great plugin. This is just brilliant work, I love it.
My old users during the registration installed the e-mail address and not the address of PayPal, how to make a custom field to enter the PayPal address for old users?!
I think everyone would like:
set a fixed fee for the post,
turn off the payment for the visitors on/off.
Counting the posts on the number of characters character/word
That would be an excellent addition. Would that be hard to do in the future release?
Once again thank you very much for your excellent plugin.
Sorry for my bad English
Hey.
For the PayPal email address thing, you can already do what you ask for. In fact, you can insert your users’ PayPal addresses from their personalize settings page in the plugin’s options. It is not important what email address they used when they signed up. Let me know if I have not been clear.
Somebody already talked about the minimum fixed fee thing: it is now on my features-to-implement list
Would you better explain “turn off the payment for the visitors on/off”, please?
For “Counting the posts on the number of characters character/word”, it is already possible to count posts using the number of words that make them up with the unique payment system, for the number of characters I have nothing planned.
Bye,
Stefano.
From version 1.2 on, besides other new functions, it is now possible to set a minimum payment fee which will always be credited to writers. Let me know should you encounter any problems.
Bye!
Hi,
I would like to suggest a new feature, that would be really helpful for me and possibly others too: A minimum fee per post in the unique payment system.
For example: the fee is calculated according to the rule 0.010 per word.
An extra rule is added: minimum fee 1.00 per post.
This will help in case of very short posts to guarantee a minimum acceptable fee, that will be fair to both the blog owner and the author of the post.
Do you think it is possible to add this feature in the next version of your great plugin?
Yannis
Hello,
I will keep this in account for the next release, it should not be too hard to implement.
Thanks for the advice,
Stefano.
From version 1.2 on, besides other new functions, it is now possible to set a minimum payment fee which will always be credited to writers. Let me know if this is what you asked for.
Bye!
Hi,
I tested the new version (1.2.1), but it doesn’t do what I needed.
It adds an extra fee to every post, so if the minimum fee is set to 1$ and a post costs 1$, then the final fee will be 2$.
What I wanted is different: that no post will be paid less than the minimum fee: if the minimum fee is set to 1$, then every amount less than 1$ will be rounded to 1$.
If the fee for a post is higher than the minimum fee, for example 1.2$, then the final fee won’t change.
Do you think it will be possible to make it work like this?
Yannis
Hello,
all right, I will add the option you ask for to the function in a few days…
I will let you know,
Stefano.
Hi,
I have downloaded and installed your plugin in a Greek blog.
Unfortunately the words counter does not function correctly, as it shows only 547 words in 33 posts. The real numbers though are 33 posts with 10472 words.
I have experienced this issue with similar plugins, but I have found a words counter which counts everything correctly: Admin Word Count Column.
I have also installed the plugin in an English blog and it works fine, so it is the Greek characters that cause the problem .
I hope you will manage to find a solution to this problem because your plugin is very useful.
Merry Christmas to you and your family,
Yannis
Hello.
I have just committed an update that should have fixed the problem, in 15 minutes it will be available for download. Could you please check if everything is fine even on your installation?
yes, it works 100% correctly now!
Many thanks!
Great!
Merry Christmas
Is it possible to put these values in US dollars in the stats?
Hi,
pasted from the related FAQ:
Ciao Stefano,
intanto complimenti per il plugin, è bellissimo e utilissimo!
Avrei un paio di domande sul pagamento a visita unica:
1) c’è la possibilità di far fermare il conteggio dopo che l’articolo ha superato il suo 30° giorno di vita? (così da conteggiare solo i primi 30 gg ai fini del pagamento)
2) se un utente disattiva i cookie e imposta un refresh automatico andrà avanti a conteggiare all’infinito?
Grazie
Ciao Massimo,
intanto grazie. Rispondo alle tue domande:
1) Al momento no, ma è una cosa di cui sicuramente considererò l’implementazione per le release a venire.
2) La risposta è sì, è questa la debolezza del conteggio per visite al momento. Ho però in programma l’aggiunta della possibilità di utilizzare Google Analytics per contare le visite, che quindi garantirebbe un’affidabilità molto maggiore. Per questo però, non ti posso dare una vera data perchè, purtroppo, in questo periodo il tempo scarseggia
Ciao Stefano,
scusa il ritardo ma non ricevo le notifiche ai tuoi commenti.
Siccome stavo proprio per scrivere uno script che utilizzasse le api di analytics per prendere i dati, mi piacerebbe avere un tuo contatto skype o gtalk per scambiarci un paio di opinioni e magari poter partire dal tuo script per implementare le mie modifiche.
E’ possibile?
Nel caso scrivimi in mail (dovresti vederla dal tuo wordpress
)
Ciao Massimo,
ti ho inviato un’email
Hi,
Very nice plugin. I looked for it abou 2 days and finaly found Your plugin !!
Near WP count.
But I have only 1 problem. In WordPress I have 535 words, but Your plugin count 613 words. I don’t know why, I check how many words realy are in my post and paste it to the Microsoft Word 2007 and it was 532
I check some other plugins with words stats in post and that plugins also count 613 words im my post? Don’t know what to do?! Any help from Your side? Mayby it’s problem about newest version of WP?
Hello,
I personally use the plugin on a couple of blogs I manage and write for, and I have not noticed any issue with the word counter, so I would not think about latest WP releases problems.
I can tell you how the plugin word counting routine works (and I guess it is the way most plugin of the kind work): it takes the text of a post and strips all the HTML tags; from there, each thing enclosed in two spaces, is a word.
Hope this is clear and will help you figure out what is wrong!
Finally figured out how to config the plugin – i feel like an idiot – it’s so simple.
Got it working to my liking – decided to go with the no of daily visits functionality to give authors a chance to earn some good money (as long as it’s within my adsense earnings – lol).
Still wondering whether it will pay out in Euros or if it sends it as GBP. Quick answer on that would be fantastic.
Love the way it backdates all the posts. Fantastic addition to the plugin. I promise to make a donation before Christmas – would love to see if the plugin works as it should first!
Thanks
Hello!
So you have solved all the problems you were reporting in the previous comments? If you still have problems in backdating and manual trial activation, make sure you have installed the very latest release of the plugin — there where some issues of the kind but my tests proved they were fixed with the 1.1.8, I hope at least.
Since a lot of people asked me, I’m gonna add a FAQ about the currency concerns. You should keep in mind that the euro sign put in front of the payment amounts is just a way to distinguish payments from other numbers and is not therefore really relevant for the payment. You can set the plugin to work with GBP even if they will be shown as euros in countings, but you will know they are actually GBP. Need to find a clearer explanation, though I hope you have understood. When, in the future, I will probably add the ability to directly pay authors with a click via paypal, then I will also introduce the possibility to change currency but, for now, it is not really important — not at all indeed.
The problem with the addition you were talking about (paying for posts not caring about words/visits) is not really hard to introduce, the point is that you are not the first who pays in a, say, unconventional way. Unfortunately, during the year — when I have school and studying to do — I do not have that much time I had in summer, and so I do really have to choose what is really interesting and useful for everybody. Can you confirm me the settings you have applied suited the payment method you usually use?
As of the donation… well you will surely guess I’m really looking forward to that — you are the first one, unfortunately. Should you have any more problems, don’t hesitate to write
Stefano,
I have to say – WHAT AN AWESOME PLUGIN. I can’t believe there’s only one plugin that does exactly what it says.
However, I feel it’s missing one feature.
Can you create a new function which pays per post published, and not per word or visit/impression?
I’d like to be able to pay my editors per post they have published – not per word, visit/impression.
This could be an option similar to the per words / visits / options.
Thanks in advance
AJ,
let me first say I am absolutely delighted in knowing your appreciation for the plugin and in reading your comment.
Now, if I got right what you are asking, it is already possible though not mentioned anywhere, I acknowledge. If you just want to set a fixed payment for every post, with the only conditioned it being future planned of published, try to use the words counting type together with the zones counting system, setting for each zone the same number of words (say 1) and the same payment amount (the amount you want your authors’ posts to be payed).
Hope this is clear and what you were looking for, if not, tell me and maybe we can find a suitable solution
Bye!
Completely forgot about my comment.
Thanks for your reply. I’ve just taken a quick look and do you mean to set
Words/Visits n° – to 1 (all 5 fields) and the Payment Option to be set to the same price for all 5 fields?
If it work’s that could be a solution – just can’t help but think to have a section where you could just have:
Counting Type
Count per post published
Counting System
A unique payment per post or make use of the unique payment value.
That would be an excellent addition. Would that be hard to do?
Kind regards
Hi again Stefano
I’ve set up the plugn as you described – I feel that the solution you gave would be the best way to solve my issue.
HUGE thanks for that – however, I am having a slight problem with your plugin.
I’d like to do a Manual Trial so I can control the co-writers that will be paid. When I select the checkbox – Enable Trial For User and click save options – the checkbox doesn’t remain checked.
When I go to update stats and dates to backpay any posts – the results show up as in how many posts and the authors but the cost of the post remains at 0 Euros.
Also, does the payments get paid in Euros, or can we select GBP?
Hello,
can I set-up include/exclude users by user level? Thank you for reply.
Hello,
no there is no way of excluding users from countings basing on their level, it is only possible to define different settings depending on the user.
Hope this helps,
Bye.
Hello,
thanks for prompt answer. I understand. It will be more work, but o.k.
Sorry. Off course “Post Pay Counter”
I found the problem. The plug-in counts words that contain Turkish characters more than real. This characters; ç, Ç, ö, Ö, ü, Ü, ı, İ, ğ, Ğ, ş, Ş (maybe you can’t see true)
I will try solve this, tomorrow. I think a code can change this characters to letter before counting.
I have never tried those characters with the plugin so, yeah, it might not work very well. ANyway, it is quite strange since the plugin considers words only group of characters divided by blank spaces, cannot see where strange chars may provoke problems.
Sorry for the late answer. Have you solved the problem?
I think this issue was fixed with version 1.1.9. Would you confirm this?
Hi,
Thanks for useful plugin. But I have a problem.
Count of words are seems too many. For example a post have actually 293 words but it’s seems 455 in “Post Per Count” list. What is the reason? And how can I fix this problem?
Hello,
glad you liked the plugin.
What is this “Post Per Count” you are talking about? If counted words are really different from what they should be, try to launch an “Update stats” from the Options page
Could you please consider introducing some kind of parameter to stop the view-payment after a certain period of time, for example after the post is 30 days old.
Have you tried the permission “Make old stats viewable”?
You do have the ability do donate, and it would be highly appreciated!
Really great plugin! The one I was really missing for WP.
Feature request:
I think it would be great to have opportunity (as admin / editor) to give to authors (contributors) special bonus for well written post or possibility to give them payment even without writing post (article).
I am running magazine on different system, and I am using above to motivate authors or to “pay” for extra (good) work.
Thanks!
It may be possible to add the ability to give special prizes to posts but I fear it won’t be so for authors. I need to think a little about it, but I think the former is possible without too much work, while the second would be almost unimplementable because the plugin wouldn’t know when the admin has payed the bonus to the author…
I’ll be back with news about this soon
As of version 1.1.4, I’ve implemented the feature you’ve requested. Please, update to the latest version and tell me if that’s what you were looking for. You have two new fields in the options to manage the new function, more details on how to use it in the FAQ here.
Can I pay my contributors through paypal, does your plugin have a paypal field where contributors enter their paypal adress?
The administrators can add their users’ paypal adrress in the Options Page but, as of now, the payment can’t be executed by the plugin.
This is the error at the top of the page:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/23/d244436119/htdocs/FFO/content/wp-content/themes/Quest/header.php:2) in /homepages/23/d244436119/htdocs/FFO/content/wp-content/plugins/post-pay-counter/post-pay-counter.php on line 217
Thanks again.
I absolutely love this plugin. I love everything it does. Normally if a plugin causes an issue I find a new plugin. However, this one is so perfect that I had to seek you out for help. When installed and activated everything wors perfect except my site gets an error code at the top of post pages that says there is an error on line 217 of post-pay-counter.php … something to do with accessing the header. Any advice or help would be incredibly awesome. Thanks.
I got the problem, thanks a lot for reporting and not going away.
I just pushed an update (labeled as Post Pay Counter 1.1.3) that should solve the problem. It should be available for download in no more than 15 minutes. Would you please confirm there any more problems?
Bye!
Completely fixed!!! Thanks a ton, I love this plugin!
I’m really glad there are no problems now and that, most of all, you love it
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o magari inserirlo come opzione amministratore quella di mostrare per nome utente o per nome visualizzato?
intanto penso ad altre feature possibili da consigliarti.. è un plugin davvero ben fatto!! complimenti
Accolgo con piacere i complimenti
Per l’aggiunta dell’opzione, per quanto possa sembrare un’aggiunta semplice, non lo è moltissimo… Dato che la priorità è ora concentrarmi su altri progetti -sempre plugin-, sarei dell’idea di lasciare perdere
Rimango in ascolto
continuo a testare il plugin, volevo chiederti.. e mi sembra che nella prima versione era così.. o forse nelvecchio plugin.. di mostrare gli autori per nome e cognome invece che per nomeutente. ( o magari inserire il nome e cognome e poi il nome utente tra parentesi..)
È possibile che nel Monthly Post Counter la cosa funzionasse in quel modo, ma sicuramente già dalla prima versione del Post Pay Counter la situazione è quella che descrivi… Ad ogni modo, non è una cosa che appoggio molto più che altro perchè sul blog gli utenti si riconoscono per il nickname piuttosto che per il nome-cognome. Se ti può tornare utile ti posso mettere la forma nome-cognome (username) visualizzabile nell’elenco dei conteggi come fumetto al passaggio del mouse… Dimmi tu
Ciao, dopo tempo sono tornato a testare il plugin e ad utilizzarlo.. volevo chiederti alcune cose e darti alcuni suggerimenti per piccole funzioni che potresti magari aggiungere.
puoi contattarmi in email così ti spiego bene ed in modo dettagliato, senza appesantire i commenti, di cosa parlo?
ciao, alessandro
Thanks, Its still hanging and causing our server to timeout, but Ill take a look a php.ini thing if I can find it.
I know nothing about plugins but Im wondering if going through the database could be done after the install process to avoid the hang up?
As a publisher who wants to implement this based on future posts, it seems like the part that is hanging up might be better as an advanced option? Besides, paying people based on past posts could cost us a bloody fortune…lol
But again, I know nothing about creating plugins, I just like the potential I see with this one
That was really a good piece of advice, thanks.
The function to update all the posts countings manually was already avaiable in the options page, I just added a few more rows of description and got rid of the function call during installation.
The purpose was mainly to generate Overall Stats that included all the blog posts, but of course is more important the plugin is working, everything comes after.
Anyway, version 1.1.2 avaiable in 15 minutes should work beatifully, I hope.
Let me know
Very interesting plugin.
In my case I only want to know which sections of the site they visit most, it would be nice to have this alternative, if only to measure the most visited and post any statistics that yields .Very good job …
I fear I don’t understand… From what I got, you would need a stats plugin rather than one like the Post Pay Counter. Could you better explain what you mean?
Bye!
Tried installing your plugin but it won’t let me install. Is it due to our extremely large database? It just hangs on the install page then goes into inactive plugins.
Please advise
Yes, I fear you got the point. I had no problem on a ~ 2000 posts blog, but in a local test install with ~ 35000 posts it just hangs… I pushed an update labeled as version 1.1.1 that tries to make the install process lighter, I think earning a couple of seconds on large blogs, but I’d suggest, if you can, to increase the max_execution_time in your server’s php.ini.
Let me know.
installato l’aggiornamento ed attivato su tutta la rete. le stats funzionano. mi prendo qualche ora per controllare che tutte le opzioni/settaggi siano ok.
gran bel lavoro, e grazie
Ottimo, spero vada tutto bene
Se hai modo di far girare un po’ la voce, mi faresti un grosso regalo 
A presto.
Per abitudine avevo scritto in inglese, traduco… Ho appena inviato un aggiornamento che dovrebbe rendere il Post Pay Counter compatibile con le installazioni multisite, l’ho testato sulla mia configurazione di sviluppo. Per favore fammi sapere se tutto funziona bene o se c’è qualcos’altro che non si comporta correttamente.
Dovrebbe essere disponibile in 15 minuti come versione 1.1:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-pay-counter/
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I just pushed an update that should make the Post Pay Counter compatible with multisite configurations, I tested it on my development setting. Please let me know if everything is working fine or if there’s something else not behaving well.
It should be avaiable to download in 15 minutes as version 1.1:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-pay-counter/
Ciao, trovo il tuo plugin fantastico.. ho solo un problema riguardo l’attivazione su una installazione multisite.
in quello principale funziona tutto, nei sottoblog invece non salva le opzioni e naturalmente non mostra le stats.. evidentamente dovuto ad un pescaggio non corretto dal database.
puoi indicarmi una soluzione o in qualche modo possiamo convertirlo per farlo funzionare su un multisite?
ciao e grazie
Ciao, non ho avuto occasione di provare il plugin su un’installazione multisite non avendola a disposizione.
Cerco al più presto di crearmi un ambiente di test funzionante e vedere cosa non va nel plugin, nel frattempo grazie mille della segnalazione. Spero di poterti ricontattare già domani con buone notizie