Symphony.

A new Extension, “New Visiter” is now available for download. Comments and feedback can be left here but if you discover any issues, please post it on the issue tracker.

Display a different message for new visitors. Message and threshold can be defined in the preferences for convenience. I don't have WordPress, but I think it works just like What Would Seth Godin Do.

Example 1

<xsl:if test="//new-visiter/@visits &lt; //new-visiter/@threshold">
    <p><xsl:value-of select="//new-visiter/message" /></p>
</xsl:if>

Example 2

<xsl:if test="//new-visiter/@visits &lt; '5'">
    <p>Hi noob!</p>
</xsl:if>

Real World

In use on my blog and blog entry pages.

Instructions

Download and install. Attach the event to the pages on which you want to track user visits.

Neat! :-)

How does this work? Does it log visitor in the database, track IPs or does it use a cookie? Just curious. I'd look at the code, but I'm a PHP n00b.

Does it log visitor in the database, track IPs or does it use a cookie?

It sets a cookie on the user's computer. Visits are not unique, so the visit count is increased on each page load (from the pages with the event attached).