The new kStats widget!
I’m feeling a lot better, which means kStats is going to be getting a lot of attention over the next little while.
As per a recent feature request, kStats now comes with widget capabilities.
Other updates are noted in the changelog, and include some odds and ends bug fixes as well as complete integration of the user-agent-string.info API for fast and accurate identification of crawlers, as well as visitors operating systems and browsers.
The search engine query string definition file has also been updated and changed to an INI format in preparation for making future updates of this file available for direct download from your administrative interface.
Blog Statistics Widget
The current widget implementation is fairly straight forward in nature and completely user customizable using built in macro codes to display the desired information.
I decided to go with this format in order to allow end users complete control over how the widget is displayed, and what information is displayed. Other than being wrapped in a single DIV element with the class ‘kstats_widget’, all formatting is left in your control.
Available data includes numerical data such as your all time total visitors, pageviews, spiders or feed accesses. You can also access this data by today, yesterday, or this month. In addition, five other macros were added, including information about your current visitor (ip, host, os, browser), and how many visitors are currently viewing your site.
More Feature Requests
I’ve got lots of ideas and future plans for kStats, but what’s really going to make it the statistics plugin of choice for Wordpress users is your input.
I hope this serves to demonstrate that I am listening, and if you have a good idea for kStats, I would be more than happy to implement it. Other such suggestions that have been implemented include the ability to define your own ignore list via the options page, as well as the ability to display more than just the most recent 20 hits.
Let me know what you want to see!
