I’ve just put the finishing touches on version 1.0 of my first WordPress plugin, the Social Traffic Monitor. In a nutshell, it checks incoming traffic for visitors from social news sites (e.g., Netscape, Digg, Reddit) and when a post on your blog starts getting traffic from these sites, it begins to log each visit to that post. When it has at least one visit logged for a post, it displays a graph of visitors per hour, as well as a list of referrering sites and how many visitors each sent your way.

The full writeup and download are available over here; now all I have to do is write something in my blog that is interesting enough to get submitted to Digg or Netscape…