On the road to releasing version 1.x.x of kStats Reloaded for Wordpress, I would like to hear back from the community on what features they like and don’t like in a statistics analysis plugin.
a friendly spider...
Pageviews, spiders, search terms, mumble, mumble…
We’ve all used them, they’re great for a multitude of purposes on a variety of levels. Some people just like to know that they’re getting hits, and how many. Some people are trying to make a living from their online endeavours, such as blogging, and need to know who is viewing their content, where they came from, and how they’re getting around your site, in order to provide this information to potential advertisers or investors.
Some are extremely fast, but may not offer the variety of information that’s being sought out. Some record literally every last detail they can squeeze out, but may store this information in a format that slows your site down to a crawl when combined with other plugins or dynamic content.
Give me your feedback!
What information do you find the most useful? What features just get in your way? Post your comments below, and I’ll review every one for possible inclusion into a future release of kStats.
(kStats Reloaded can be found here.)
Hi Mark
Installed the plugin today and so far so good.
I would really love to be able to display certain stats in a sidebar widget, such as total visits, visits today, visits yesterday, visitors online, recent referrers, etc. Much like the StatPressCN widget.
Gemma
Gemma Wild
14 Nov 09 at 333:44 pm
Gemma,
Sounds like a good idea to me, and you should definitely keep an eye out for just that in the next release.
I was originally considering bringing back Spy, but I scrapped that plan temporarily until I’ve either set up my own geolocation server or find one that’s much more reliable than hostip.info to work with. The sidebar Widget sounds like a better plan for the immediate future.
mark
14 Nov 09 at 444:36 pm
hello Mark,
i’m testing your plugin on wpmu installation, seems to work fine on the main blog as well as on the secondary blogs.
Think it could be useful to manage the role, i mean extend the permissions for others wp-users to see the statistic without modify the code. I thought the function create_user was deprecated.
Also could be fine, but suppose a little harder to code, to give in a wpmu installation, the possibility to control every single blog stats from the main blog.
Anyway, this is a number 1 plugin.
Regards,
futre
futre
18 Nov 09 at 888:23 am
The method
create_users()has been deprecated in favor ofwp_create_user(), however where I’m using ‘create_users’ is in regards to WP Roles and Capabilities. I’m not actually using the method itself, as kStats has no reason to create users.I’ll add access levels to my todo list, in order to allow the site administrator the ability to grant access to the statistics themselves on a per-user or per-user-level basis, that’s definitely a good idea.
I’m going to start repositioning kStats for the upcoming codebase merge of WP.org and WPMU, and I’ll keep in mind providing a way for the MU Site Admin to override settings on all blogs.
Thank you for the comments and great suggestions!
mark
18 Nov 09 at 101010:42 pm
thanks Mark,
didn’t know anything about the merge within wp and wpmu, i’ll google…
We use your plugin here, http://fingerpicking.net, in case you want to make a list of kstats’ users and in the next days here: http://bibienne.com. Both wpmu.
Please note i’m not going to promote ourself, feel free to delete the links.
At last it seems the subscription, i mean the comments’ subscriptions don’t work, didn’t receive any email.
Have a good day,
futre
futre
19 Nov 09 at 555:46 am
I don’t mind the links, they’re nofollowed automatically anyways.
That’s actually a good idea too, I may have to set up such a page.
The merge is allegedly supposed to happen around version 3.0, so there’s time left yet as 2.9 is still in beta. Nevertheless, it’s a good idea for any developers out there to start taking it into account, and since I run mu on all my sites, I’ve had it in the back of my head since day one.
The subscriptions are handled through Mark Jaquith’s comment subscriptions plugin, so I guess I just assumed they would work. I’ll have to look into that, thanks for letting me know!
mark
19 Nov 09 at 111:11 pm
Hi Mark:
The hell of a good plugin. Just installed your latests updates. Have no words. It´s incredible how GPL software can be orders of magnitude better than any corporate stuff. And we are not talking about money.
My best wishes
Juan Soto – Barcelona – Spain
Juan
27 Nov 09 at 121212:31 am
Hi Mark
Thank you for your great job.
May I suggest you in a future realese to split bar for statistic overviews on the four items now in a single bar (Visitors, page views, spiders, feeds). It will be easier to understand how the traffic is going.
Bye
Luca
Luca
27 Nov 09 at 333:59 am
Thank you both for the kind words! The best part of all this is knowing that somebody is finding the plugin useful and appropriate to their needs.
@Luca,
I’m planning on sometime in the 0.7.x or 0.8.x series to add tabs to the chart allowing you to switch between monthly, weekly and daily views. When doing so I’ll keep in mind adding a feature where by you can additionally break it down to view only one piece of data at a time.
mark
27 Nov 09 at 121212:03 pm
I’d like to see the kstats admin group moved back up towards the top of the left column within the admin screens. Keep up the good work!
Jake
2 Dec 09 at 666:47 pm
If I had my way, the list would go;
kStats
Dashboard
-
Posts
Media
…
If I can dissect it and learn the process by which Wordpress generates its page hooks, I’ll see about moving it up there in a future version.
mark
2 Dec 09 at 777:53 pm
Hi, nice work with this plug-in
I have a request. Can you add this shortcut to IP for geolocation?
http://www.ip2location.com/1.2.3.4
1.2.3.4 is the IP.
This service provide 20 searches each day.
Thank you.
PaRRoT
6 Dec 09 at 222:15 pm
Thanks! I’ll take a look at that – I’m currently in the market for trying to find a suitable geolocation suite to either host on my own servers or if there is one that provides a reliable free service, I would love to find it.
As of right now, there’s some basic geolocation going on through hostip.info, and I appreciate the hard work they put into their service but it goes up and down like a drawbridge.
mark
6 Dec 09 at 777:55 pm
In recent page view can you add pagination (next page, prev page)?
PaRRoT
22 Jan 10 at 444:03 pm
I would like to be able to display pageviews on my front page for all users. Is there a function I can use? Thanks.
ZX
20 Feb 10 at 333:09 pm