I had an idea of something I would like to see on WordPress.com. Traditionally on an about page you talk about yourself, the author of the blog. However, on my blog I thought it would be neat to have a spot on the about page for my blog itself. Your blog is kinda like your co-author, nothing would get published without him (it?). It would be nice to have some way to showcase the great things about your blog. Here are some of the things that I think would be cool to have in an “About this Blog” shortcode.
- Age in blog years (not sure how I’m going to calculate this yet
) - Number of words used across the entire site
- Number of media files separated by media type, maybe have it display the total number of pixels for all images
- The theme being used
- Any upgrades being used
- The site stats
- Number of posts
- Number of pages
- Number of comments
- Number of commenters
- Number of followers
- Number of categories
- Number of tags
Great idea!
I especially miss PAGE VIEWSfor each post that (right up under the date) that some Posterous themes had. Haven’t seen a WP.com theme with page views shown on every post.