Steps Tracker
The Steps Tracker records, tracks, and displays information about walking and other types of physical activity.
Cari Haus of ILuvWalking.com came to me with an interesting request. She wanted to build a community of walkers using WordPress as her platform. In order to give people a reason to visit her site daily, she knew she needed a hook. She had the idea for a component which allowed people to track their walking statistics, including steps, other activity, and a brief comment.
I built the Steps Tracker plugin to help Cari expand her community reach. Upon logging in, users are redirected to the information input form where they can enter their steps and save the data they’ve added. 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 on both the front and backend and a WordPress widget that shows summary output of a user’s steps so far. The plugin worked wonders on delivery and was the base on which Cari started to build her community.
