Cari Haus of ILuvWalking.com came to me with an interesting request. She wanted to build a community of walkers using WordPress as a platform. The first component she saw that was necessary was a way for people to track their walking statistics, including steps, other activity, and a brief comment.

I built the Steps Tracker plugin to help Cari build her community. Upon logging in, users are redirected to the information input form where they can enter their steps and save them. By default, users can access the past 7 days, but selecting a month allows them to enter steps for any day of that month.

Included with the tracking was some basic statistical analysis and a widget that shows summary output of a user’s steps so far. The plugin worked wonderfully on delivery and will be the base on which Cari builds her community. Future plans include a widget that users can install on their blogs, allowing them to show off their steps that are being tracked on ILuvWalking.com.