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September 24th, 2004, by Rich, in Releases, WordPress.
one of the most useful things that stattraq author randy has done (apart from writing stattraq) is write up a few words about hacking wordpress. and as a kind of review of these notes, i had a go at knocking up a wordpress plugin that makes a database query. i wrote my first wordpress plugin yesterday, so this is my second. it’s the first one i’ve done that accessed the db, and the first one that i’ll stick out into the real world. More…
September 24th, 2004, by Rich, in General, WordPress.
i’ve coded on many systems over many years, starting on the ZX81 in 1981. it’s surprising how over the last 10 years or so, code highlighting has become the norm - i take it for for granted. times have changed since those days on the sinclair and acorn machines where blocky white capitals glared fuzzily out of a black television screen. More…
September 20th, 2004, by Rich, in WordPress.
the ability to ignore an ip address in stattraq is rather useful and i wonder if it could be extended to be a part of the main plugin.
the above article describes a method whereby an ip address is hard coded into the stattraq.php file, which is not particularly flexible, or easily upgraded. More…
September 20th, 2004, by Rich, in WordPress.
i’ve just installed the StatTraq 1.0a beta and (barring a few beta-level hiccups) it’s very nice.
unlike several other stats mechanisms i’ve looked at, StatTraq was a doddle to install requiring only the uploading of files (no .htaccess fiddling), and no manual adding of filters, which is always a bonus.
by the time i got through the very simple configuration page it was already telling me about two visitors i’d had to the site.
this looks to be a highly capable plugin, so i’ll comment again after a few days/weeks/months to provide some feedback on how useful the resulting information is.
