New Feature: Insights & Metrics

In December, we announced the availability of our Insights & Metrics panel. Thanks to your feedback, we have diligently improved the experience and are proud to announce new features and improvements today.

Your site is vital to your business. That’s why you partner with WordPress VIP. Application Insights & Metrics gives you the visibility and tools you need to accurately assess the performance and stability of your applications.

Many of you have used this feature in beta to better understand how your application performs directly from the VIP Dashboard. Here is a short demo of what both new and returning users can expect with the official release of Insights and Metrics.

You may have noticed significant improvements to time selection in the demo. We frequently heard the need for more precise controls, and now you have them–including the ability to share a link to a specific time period for improved collaboration.

There are hundreds of metrics you can look at to access your site. The Insights & Metrics panel is designed by our WordPress experts to put the most important numbers at your fingertips. 

The Insights & Metrics panel shows metrics for:

  • Origin response time – measure how fast your application responds.
  • Origin and Edge response codes – quickly track down any application errors.
  • PHP Process – understand application load.
  • Slow MySQL queries – zero in on queries slowing down your users.
  • Cache hit rate – ensure that your application takes full advantage of the VIP’s edge CDN.

To get started, log in to your account on the VIP Dashboard and select “Performance” then “Insights & Metrics” for any application. 

Read our documentation on the Insights & Metrics panel.

And we aren’t done yet. In the coming weeks, we will begin a closed beta of anomaly detection to highlight when important metrics move beyond historical norms.

Reminder: VIP Training Days & Theme Customer & Editorial Demos

Lots of upcoming events here at WordPress.com VIP! Read on for details and individual posts with signup information.

Tomorrow! Signups are still open and you’re welcome to join.

During the free 30-minute demo, we’ll take a deeper look at the Theme Customization API and why it’s interesting, how it works from a technical standpoint, and we’ll see some examples from Parade of what it can do, as well as how these customizations were enabled at the code level. The demo will be led by Parade.com’s Senior Developer, Taylor Buley, and he’ll cover both technical & non-technical information so all participants are welcome to attend. A brief Q&A will follow the demo.

We’ll demonstrate how to speed up your composition with five handy WordPress.com editorial tools you might not know about, including Copy a post, Request feedback, Distraction free writing, Revisions, Post by email.

Our one-day intensive training courses for developers and superusers alike! Registration is now open. Our one-day intensive courses  will be held in-person and these courses will focus on small groups of students with hands-on material led by several Automattic and WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner instructors. The course will be very interactive and full of practical information & exercises, and students will have the opportunity to ask questions during the course as well.

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Demo: Cultivating Your Community with Livefyre and WordPress.com VIP

When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
Where: Register here

In this session you’ll learn from WordPress.com VIP partner Livefyre why community on your site is so critical and how to effectively engage your audience — all dramatically increasing time spent on your site and return visits.

Led by Livefyre’s VP of Customer Experience Jenna Langer, this demo will cover how Livefyre can work with your site using simple out of the box tools such as Live Comments and Live Chats, all built to get people talking about your content.

She’ll also demonstrate how you can integrate external social content onto your site, including tweets, images and more, and easily customize and control the experience for your readers.

Join us to find out how making your site social has never been so easy — Register now!

Digital Subscriptions with MediaPass and WordPress.com VIP

MediaPass, a WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner, offers one of the best digital subscription solutions on the market. They’re continually adding new features to optimize the publisher experience, and in two weeks will be releasing some major updates for VIP users.

To kick things off, MediaPass is hosting a demo exclusively for WordPress.com VIP customers, partners, and friends—if you’ve ever considered increasing your web property’s total monetization by incorporating paid subscriptions, now’s the perfect time to give MediaPass a try.

Join us on October 4th from 10am – 11:00AM PDT for a free demo hosted by the MediaPass and VIP teams.

Register now!

Free VIP Demo & Q&A: Edit Flow

On Tuesday January 10th, VIP Developer Daniel Bachhuber will do a short, free demo for VIPs interested in learning more about the editorial workflow plugin he co-authored, Edit Flow.

A version of Edit Flow will soon be available to all VIPs on the WordPress.com platform as a shared plugin, so this is your opportunity to learn more about its features and how to integrate it with your sites.

Daniel will do a demo of the main features of the plugin (editorial calendar, custom post statuses, story budget, and more) and will leave 15 minutes for your questions at the end.

Start time: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 11am PST
Total time: 30-45 minutes

We’re going to limit participation on this demo, so please RSVP via the survey below or by commenting on this post and we’ll send the participation information shortly before the 10th.

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