LP Stats plugin

ludo, Friday 19 August 2005 13:39:25 PST

A couple of months ago, Jerome wrote a quick and dirty WP plugin to display the data logged to MySQL from our Stats plugin. We never got around to release it, always hoping to find the time to add some extra functionality. As time is always short, and lp-stats may be useful to some of you, I have decided to release it while Jerome is on vacation. :) It's not even an alpha release, but I have been using it for quite some time without any problems.

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Readers' Comments

  1. Patrick Smith on 22 Aug 2005 at 04:49

    Hey Ludo,

    This looks cool; thanks for making it available.

    Maybe due to my inexperience with lp/wp, I'm not sure how to install it…

    I downloaded it and unpacked the lp-stats directory to my lp plugins directory, but didn't see anything. (probably foolishly), I moved the files from the lp-stats directory into the main plugin directory, and still nothing.

    Any suggestions?

    thanks,
    Patrick

  2. ludo on 23 Aug 2005 at 19:20

    I have it as wp-content/plugins/lp-stats. Maybe the permissions are off, make sure the lp-stats folder and its files are world readable…

  3. jerome on 27 Aug 2005 at 04:00

    To clarify, this is actually a WordPress plugin - just install it like any other WP plugin.

    The plugin only displays stats. To actually record stats, you need to activate the LightPress Stats plugin (included with the LP install) and make sure the stats block (PLUGIN_STATS) is included in your footer.

  4. Patrick Smith on 27 Aug 2005 at 20:58

    Great, Jerome, thanks. That makes sense.

    So here's what I've done:
    * Installed the WP plugin called LightPress Stats
    * Enabled it
    * Enabled the LP plugin called Stats
    * Called PLUGIN_STATS in my template's footer

    This may be a silly question, but where can I see the stats that are now being captured?

    thanks,
    Patrick

  5. Patrick Smith on 27 Aug 2005 at 21:01

    Yep, it was a silly question. I see the stats link in the toolbar now.

    doh.

  6. jerome on 28 Aug 2005 at 00:29

    Just a note that the plugin will only record hits for users which aren't logged in. That way you don't have to sort out which hits are your own. :)