BlogStats PCC Plugin

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1 • August 29, 2006 at 1:29 pm — rasheed says:

wow

i like the design of the comments section.

looks cool.

can i use it in my blog ? how can i edit it in my blog ?

and thanks for the plugin.

2 • August 29, 2006 at 3:01 pm — Nyssa says:

Nice, works like a charm, thank you :)

3 • August 29, 2006 at 3:47 pm — Perishable says:

It is my pleasure — thank you both for the positive feedback!

4 • September 8, 2006 at 12:22 am — airedge says:

How can I let it work in my blog ?
I have actived it in my “Plugin” panel,how to display it in my index page ? Thank you !

5 • September 9, 2006 at 5:32 pm — Perishable says:

airedge,

Open the plugin with a text editor and follow the "Installation and Use" instructions. Simply include any of the provided php tags anywhere within the body of your pages. That’s all there is to it!

6 • September 10, 2006 at 4:37 pm — airedge says:

Thank you very much perishable!!!
I have made it !

7 • September 21, 2006 at 4:07 am — Chico says:

Thank you for this simple but sweet little plugin!

Much appreciated!

“Long live open-source”

8 • September 21, 2006 at 8:30 pm — Nikolay says:

thanks. It’s really easy. :)

9 • September 22, 2006 at 8:00 am — Perishable says:

Thank you all for the positive feedback — your comments are greatly appreciated and inspire us to continue contributing code and content to the open-source WordPress community. Cheers!

10 • September 24, 2006 at 8:36 pm — bulletz says:

Maybe I don’t get it. I am new to PHP. I am wondering if this is a plugin that I can use only on the ADMIN page and if not, how do I get it to be on one of the pages that I have named STATS?

11 • September 25, 2006 at 8:13 am — Perishable says:

bulletz,

To add BlogStats PCC functionality to your Admin Dashboard, open the wp-admin/index.php file and locate this code:

Immediately after that code, add the following:

Upload the wp-admin/index.php file to your server and you should be good to go.

Now, to add the same statistical information to the blog itself, simply add this code to the location at which you would like to display your blog’s statistics:

<?php fullstats(); ?>

Finally, please keep in mind that if you open the BlogStats PCC file itself (say, with a simple text editor), you will find there are many ways to customize your statistics.

Cheers!

12 • September 28, 2006 at 2:37 am — Peter T says:

I was able to put the snippet of code into the wp-admin/index.php page to get stats to appear there, but i still don’t get how to make the stats appear on the blog itself. What file specifically am I looking for if I want to get the stats on the main page of the blog?
Thank!

13 • September 30, 2006 at 2:20 am — Brom says:

Just wondering:

Is there any way for the plugin to avoid showing comments caught with Akismet? All new spam-comments show on up on my ‘recent comments’-display - before I even get as far as deleting them.

Great plugin by the way :-)

14 • October 2, 2006 at 7:25 am — Perishable says:

Peter T,

BlogStats PCC works anywhere within the <body> of your blog documents. If you would like the plugin to show stats from your blog’s sidebar, for example, you would open the sidebar.php file located within the "/wp-content/themes/your-theme(whatever it is)/> directory, and add this snippet of code:

<?php fullstats(); ?>

Otherwise, within the same directory (your theme directory), open the index.php file and place the code in an appropriate location.

I hope that helps. If you would like more help, please contact me. I would be more than happy to help you get BlogStats PCC working on your blog.

15 • October 2, 2006 at 7:29 am — Perishable says:

Brom,

You are absolutely correct — only comments that have been approved should display in the "most recent comments" stats. I have made the required modifications and released a new version (1.7.9) of the plugin, which may be downloaded via the post link above. Thank you for the excellent suggestion!

16 • October 4, 2006 at 3:26 am — Brom says:

Incredible, my good man - thanks for the quick update :-D

Is there any way to donate? Your plugin deserves it!

Cheers,
Brom

17 • October 9, 2006 at 4:25 pm — danfef says:

great plug-in. just installed it!

18 • October 12, 2006 at 4:48 am — John says:

Thanks so much for the great plugin. Is there any way I can add something to the script to also call the “page” count? Right now it only counts posts but I would like to also show how many “page”s I have.

Thanks so much!

19 • October 15, 2006 at 3:58 pm — Perishable says:

John,

Including a "Page Count" stat is an excellent idea — I will look into it and report back within a few days. Stay tuned..

20 • October 15, 2006 at 5:38 pm — Perishable says:

danfef,

Thanks for the comment — glad you enjoy it!

21 • October 15, 2006 at 5:44 pm — Perishable says:

John,

Thanks to your feedback, BlogStats PCC now displays the total number of individual static pages. Download the new version (1.9.9) via the main download link above. Thanks for the idea!

22 • October 17, 2006 at 3:06 pm — mary says:

Hi..I cannot locate this code anywhere within my wp-admin/index.php:

I’ve been to my server and located the wp-admin/index.php..but that code is not there. Am I supposed to access that file through my Wordpress computer folder..if so also can’t find the file itself. I have a wp/options/index/phpfile..but there’s nothing in it.

Help..am probably missing something very simple so forgive me.

This is what’s in my server public_html / wp-admin/indexphp file:

[ - edited - ]

Thanks for the help.

23 • October 17, 2006 at 4:36 pm — Perishable says:

mary,

I assume you are trying to insert the stats function into your admin dashboard as per comment #12, above. If that is indeed the case, then open wp-admin/index.php (either online or offline) and look again for this code (you could even do a find/search for it):

<div id="zeitgeist">
<h2><?php _e('Latest Activity'); ?></h2>

This code is identical in your particular version of WordPress (2.0.1) and should definitely be present (near the top of the document) in order for your site admin to function properly.

Try logging in to your admin section and see if the dashboard is looking up to snuff. If it feels right, then the specified code should be in the file location indicated. If you are certain that the file lacks such code, you could always unzip a fresh copy and restore it.

Note: Most of the code you posted in your previous comment was "eaten" by WordPress. From the shreds of php that remain, it appears that you copied only a portion of the entire document. Try checking again, only this time please do not post the code. Thanks;)

24 • October 20, 2006 at 5:02 am — Robert says:

A very good and clean plug-in.
I have translated your plug-in to spanish (Spain). If you’re interested, send me an email.

Greetings!

25 • October 21, 2006 at 9:57 am — Blake says:

Thank you SO much for making this so simple and customizeable. Very appreciated.

26 • October 21, 2006 at 1:41 pm — mary says:

Thanks for the suggestion…I’ll try a clean install and get back to you..sory about posting all that code. Shoulda known better.

27 • November 2, 2006 at 12:17 pm — Abhimanyu Chirimar says:

Hello,
Great plugin.
I would like to use this in WordpressMU.

And, in any case, I would like to get total posts in each category and list like

Category1 - 45
Category2 - 30

and be able to control some stuff like which categorys info to get and display only the post count.

Is that doable? Thank you.

28 • November 4, 2006 at 9:39 pm — Perishable says:

Abhimanyu Chirimar,
Let me look into it.. I have not yet worked with WPMU, so that may prove interesting. The individual category stats should not be difficult, however I am a little confused about the second part of your request. Would you mind clarifying a bit?

29 • January 1, 2007 at 10:09 am — Matt says:

What is the best way to add this to it’s own “stats” page? My photoblog theme doesn’t use a sidebar. I’ve tried creating a standalone stats.php with the fullstats in it, but get a php error.

30 • January 1, 2007 at 11:32 am — Perishable says:

Matt,
I just checked your stats page — it looks like everything is working now..? If not, let me know — otherwise, congrats!

31 • February 17, 2007 at 2:19 pm — Lorelle says:

Could you please feature documentation and instructions on usage and Plugin template tag options on your site instead of just within the Plugin or in the comments here? It would really help people understand how this works and how to make it do what they want. Thanks.

32 • February 19, 2007 at 8:33 am — Perishable says:

Lorelle,
Thank you for pointing this out. We had posted installation and usage documentation for our other plugins, but somehow forgot to include the information for BlogStats PCC. We now have fixed this oversight and have posted complete documentation for BlogStats PCC. We apologize for any frustration caused by our apparent lack of concern. Thank you for helping to improve the quality of our humble website.
Cheers,
Jeff

33 • February 20, 2007 at 6:24 am — Norm says:

Works great! I have one question though, is there any way to change the format of the date? Thanks!

34 • February 20, 2007 at 9:25 am — Perishable says:

Norm,

Customizing the date format for the most recent blog update was previously very tedious and not very user friendly. So, we have added a new function to the BlogStats PCC plugin that will simplify the process.

First, download and install the new version (2.0.0). Then use this function instead of the previous one:

<?php if (function_exists('recstats')) { recstats(); } ?>

This function should output the last-update information according to the default date and time settings of your blog (under Options in the WP Admin). If that date works for you, then great — you are good to go. Otherwise, scroll through the file and locate the function itself. There, you will find comments concerning customization of the date and time format.

Regards,
Jeff

35 • February 20, 2007 at 10:40 am — Norm says:

Thanks very much, appreciate the amazingly fast response! Nice, simple & clean plugin.

36 • February 20, 2007 at 11:10 am — Perishable says:

It is our pleasure to help! We are glad that BlogStats PCC is working well for you. Thank you for the kind remarks. Cheers!

37 • February 25, 2007 at 7:02 am — daive says:

Hi, nice work for this pluggin! :) But i got a little problem… I want to ‘create a page’ from the dashboard that will show the stats on it. But the problem is that it doesnt process the php tag code on the textarea to write the page. I must put the tags on the sidebar for them to work..

Sorry for my english :)

thx and ciao!

38 • February 25, 2007 at 9:27 am — Perishable says:

daive,

After you have created a page, open your WP Admin and click on "Presentation". Then, under Presentation, click on "Theme Editor". Once inside the Theme Editor, locate your new page in the list of files on the right. Finally, add the BlogStats PCC function call(s) to the location of your choice. Don’t forget to click the "Update File" button to save your changes. After that, check your page, everything should be working fine.

Let us know how it goes!

39 • February 25, 2007 at 9:29 am — daive says:

Thx, it was my mistake.. It work fine :)

40 • February 25, 2007 at 12:10 pm — daive says:

Mmmh sorry but my pages doesnt appear on my files list to edit on the theme editor, any ideas?

41 • February 25, 2007 at 1:55 pm — Perishable says:

You need to create a page before it will appear in the list. In this case, creating a page requires a custom page template. Only pages with custom templates will appear in the theme editor. Check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages (about halfway down on the page: "Page Templates") for more information about creating custom page templates. Once you have the custom page template in place, the steps outlined in my previous comment should apply.
Good luck!

42 • April 4, 2007 at 11:59 am — Martin says:

Counting posts in categories is fine. But I have posts that can belong to several categories. I have a small routine (using an array) which selects posts that are - for example - both in category A and category B. What I would like is to display the number of posts that are displayed by this selection. May your plugin be adapted to this? Thanks for your wisdom!

43 • April 6, 2007 at 9:01 pm — Perishable says:

Martin,
That definitely sounds possible..
Email the code you are using along with any pertinent information and we will look into it..
Jeff

44 • April 17, 2007 at 10:41 am — Aurelia says:

Why DOESN’T it work? I did everything like’s written and it doesn’t. What’s up?

45 • April 17, 2007 at 11:09 am — Perishable says:

Did you get it working? I checked your site and it appears to be displaying statistics in the sidebar..
‘sup..

46 • April 17, 2007 at 9:34 pm — Aurelia says:

It’s different statistics. But nevermind. I decided to use different plugin.

47 • May 5, 2007 at 8:25 pm — alejandro says:

Hello,

I have a question. The “guests” (unregistered users”) are the number of visitors at a given moment? In real time?
Thanks! Great plug in.

48 • May 15, 2007 at 2:36 pm — Perishable says:

The number of "Guests" reflects the number of users that have registered as a subscriber/member for your blog, not the number of visitors currently visiting your site.

49 • May 17, 2007 at 4:58 pm — billy says:

great little plugin. i have a 2 questions i want to ask before i go screwing up the php file.

1. changing the number of recent posts and comments listed
2. You had said that “guests” is actually users who have registered. how do i change “guests” to something that would reflect that, like “registered Users”?

50 • May 23, 2007 at 11:15 am — Perishable says:

billy,

not sure if i am understanding the first question.. the number of posts/comments is generated from database statistics. changing the number of either requires altering the actual number of posts/comments in the database itself (e.g., by adding/deleting posts).

the second question is easy. open the file and go to line #114. change the word "guests" to whatever you prefer. no additional editing should be necessary.

51 • May 28, 2007 at 4:26 am — Arkan says:

Hello,

thanks for this great plugin Perishable ;)

I translate this in French: Here

It is also available on the official French Wordpress site.

52 • May 29, 2007 at 11:10 am — Perishable says:

Arkan,
Very nice! Thank you for your help. The translation is excellent. Keep up the good work!
Regards,
Jeff

53 • June 17, 2007 at 12:49 pm — Christopher says:

Finally I have found a great plugin to show a the stats about my blog - thank you.
I like the way I can list posts and pages separately, but it seems to miss out a whole load of sub pages. Any ideas??

54 • June 18, 2007 at 8:42 am — Perishable says:

Yes, open the plugin file, find the function called function pagestats(), and replace this line:

$numpages = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'static'");

with this one:

$numpages = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE (post_status = 'static') AND (post_parent >= '0')");

That should do the trick. Let us know how it goes..

55 • June 18, 2007 at 4:45 pm — Christopher says:

Thanks for the amended code, unfortunately no change. Still showing 6 pages.
If I change it to (post_parent >= '1') it then says 2 pages.

At the moment your plugin is reporting:
59 posts and 6 pages in 11 categories with 56 comments

While the WP Dashboard reports:
There are currently 43 posts and 56 comments, contained within 11 categories.

Probably should have said I am using WP2.1
Thanks for your help.

56 • June 18, 2007 at 6:02 pm — Perishable says:

I don’t have WordPress 2.1 running for this site (yet), but I may have an opportunity later tonight or tomorrow to investigate the situation on a different domain. It should be just a matter of culling the desired page data from the correct database tables, which indeed may have been changed in WP2.1. I’ll see what I can do.. stay tuned..

57 • July 18, 2007 at 6:46 am — David says:

Exellent, it works very well. Very usefull tool ;)

58 • September 11, 2007 at 12:13 am — Manele says:

i just installed this plugin on my blog and i love it! thank you!

59 • September 11, 2007 at 8:46 am — Perishable says:

Excellent, Manele — I love to hear positive feedback! Thanks for the comment!

60 • September 22, 2007 at 5:00 pm — J.M. Snyder says:

Hi,

Great plug-in! However, I’m using the “poststats” function and it’s returning the number of all my posts AND my pages.

Your plug-in stats: 57 posts, 0 pages

WordPress dashboard: 50 posts

I have 1 post that’s marked private and 1 page marked private, for a total of 51 posts and 8 pages.

Any clue why this may be happening?

Thanks in advance!

J.M. Snyder

61 • September 22, 2007 at 5:06 pm — J.M. Snyder says:

NM, I fixed it. I changed the line:

$numposts = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’”);

to read:

$numposts = $wpdb->get_var(”SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_type = ‘post’”);

And that cleared things up. Thanks again for this great plug-in!

62 • September 22, 2007 at 10:06 pm — Perishable says:

Thanks for sharing that solution, J.M. Snyder ;) I am glad that you find the plugin useful!
— Cheers!

63 • October 8, 2007 at 12:14 pm — mathieu says:

hello!

first of all, great plugin. Everything works fine right from the start and im loving it! I would like to change that the most recent post stat only shows posts, and not pages. At the moment, it says that the most recent post is “Archives”, which is a page I just created. Any ideas?

cheers,
mathieu

64 • October 8, 2007 at 2:39 pm — Perishable says:

Hi mathieu,

Excluding pages from the “Recent Post” function is straightforward. Open the plugin file, find the function called recpost(), and replace this line:

$lastpost = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1";

..with this one:

$lastpost = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status <> 'static' AND post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1";

..and that should do it. Let me know how it goes ;)

65 • October 9, 2007 at 1:58 am — mathieu says:

Hello!

thanks for the fast reply! I did the changes you recommended but still it shows the latest page as latest post. Could this be due to the theme Im using (Hemingway4u)? Any other ideas?

thanks,
mathieu

66 • October 9, 2007 at 6:06 am — Perishable says:

mathieu,

It is unlikely (though possible) that the theme is causing the issue. A quick way to test that would be to activate one of the default WP themes and check again. By the way, which version of WordPress are you using? This may have something to do with WordPress 2.3 or even 2.2, for that matter.

Regards,
Jeff

67 • October 9, 2007 at 7:05 am — mathieu says:

Hmm.. again, thanks for the quick reply! I am running 2.2.1, have tried to change themes but that did not affect the archives… Could it be that i need to change any more/other code? It doesnt really matter that much in the end, because as soon as I add a new post it will change, but it might help me sort out a problem I am having with extended Live Archives which shows pages in the archive where I would only like to have posts… gambia.isbcontact.com

cheers,
mathieu

68 • October 9, 2007 at 10:35 am — Perishable says:

mathieu,

Aha! It turns out that the WordPress wp_posts table structure is slightly different in version 2.2. Try the following code, via the same function as before:

$lastpost = "SELECT ID, post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post' ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 1";

..and that should do it! Let me know how it goes ;)

69 • October 9, 2007 at 10:43 am — mathieu@bangerts.com says:

ok, that did the trick indeed! thanks for your help! Things are running smoothly now, although I think ill need to change it back to the initial piece of code you gave me at first! thanks again!

mathieu

70 • October 9, 2007 at 10:52 am — Perishable says:

Happy to help!

71 • October 27, 2007 at 5:44 am — Leanne says:

Just an FYI - your plugin broke when I just upgraded to 2.3.1 - the error:

wp_categories' doesn't exist]
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM wp_categories

72 • October 28, 2007 at 8:34 am — Perishable says:

Leanne,

Thanks for the heads up.. I am looking into it now. I will post again later today or tomorrow.

73 • October 28, 2007 at 5:05 pm — Perishable says:

New version of BlogStats PCC now available! Check out this post to read the announcement, or simply scroll up to the download portion of this page to grab yourself a fresh copy. The new version is numbered 2.3.0a, and is compatible with all versions of WordPress (1.5 - 2.3).

74 • October 29, 2007 at 4:15 pm — JJ says:

Hi,

I just downloaded your plugin … nice work!!

However, I discovered a bug: poststats() counts not only posts but pages too. Simply add AND post_type = 'post' to the query. I haven’t tested the other functions.

Furthermore I would prefer poststats to return the number only… thus I may use it more flexible.

Again, thanks a lot for the great work!!

Cheers,
jj

75 • October 30, 2007 at 8:28 am — Perishable says:

JJ,
Yes, thanks for the feedback! A similar issue was resolved awhile ago for the “latest-post” function (recpost()) using the same trick: adding AND post_type = 'post' to the database query (see comments #63-70 for the full story). There are even alternate versions of functions buried in the latest release of the plugin (v0.88) that were used for testing (look for recpageless() and rec_pageless()). In any case, we appreciate the heads up and thank you for helping to improve the BlogStats PCC plugin ;)
Regards,
Jeff

76 • November 13, 2007 at 9:03 pm — trademark registration says:

Just downloaded the plugin and installed it on one of my personal blogs, and it’s fantastic! Thanks so much for this. =)

77 • November 25, 2007 at 12:45 am — Muzica Noua says:

i have tested it ! it’s great ! thank you man !

78 • December 21, 2007 at 4:04 pm — tnchick says:

thank you for the simple and easy to use plugin!

79 • December 23, 2007 at 9:20 am — Perishable says:

You are most welcome, tnchick — thanks for the feedback :)

80 • January 2, 2008 at 7:11 am — Hostorials says:

Hi,

I am using this plugin to display the entire set.

I copied the code above you mentioned and pasted it on my static page for sitestats in the code section of the edit page.

However, no stats is displayed.

I am using wp 2.2.2

Thanks for any help

81 • January 2, 2008 at 12:18 pm — Perishable says:

Hostorials,

When you say, “code section of the edit page,” are you referring to the WordPress Admin panel found at Manage » Pages » Edit Page? If so, that is the problem — unless you have a plugin that enables WordPress to process PHP in post content, placing the function call in this way will not work. You will need to create a template page for stats and then edit it directly with the same code.

Regards,
Jeff

82 • January 4, 2008 at 5:04 am — Hostorials says:

Jeff…

Thank you. It’s working now.

83 • January 5, 2008 at 2:55 pm — Perishable says:

Excellent — glad to hear you got it working :)

84 • January 25, 2008 at 6:55 am — Muzica says:

i’m tested it and i’m glad that worked for me…
thanks again

85 • January 27, 2008 at 8:05 am — Perishable says:

My pleasure :)

86 • February 4, 2008 at 9:57 am — jack says:

Statistics for number of tags? I’m missing that one, or am I overlooking something?

87 • February 5, 2008 at 1:37 am — Perishable says:

jack, you are right — I definitely need to add statistics for “total number of tags”.. As mentioned in the email, I will look into adding this feature to the BlogStats plugin just as soon as time allows. Hopefully, within the next couple of days!

Perishable Press

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