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QuickStats 1.1

Jim Qode — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:07:11 +0000

Your favorite statistics plugin is back. This minor revision implements an RSS tracker function that lets you tracker your visitors in near-realtime using an rss reader software. Also the annoying undeletable filtered IP bug is fixed. Thanks go to Mitch Powell for pointing it out.

Quick Stats is a configurable and embarassingly easy to install statistics plugin for wordpress that shows live statistics about referrer data, content hit count and browser versions back to a configurable number of hits. Individual hits are also shown with ip address and hostname.

Quick Stats is not meant to be a full featured log analyzer. It is intended to show realtime statistics on a recent time window. It does all the analysis on demand and shows them on an easily accesible single page.

Installation

1. Upload `quickstats.php` and `quickstats` directory to your plugins folder, usually `wp-content/plugins/`2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen

Upgrade

Just overwrite the old file and be sure to visit options page once.

Screen Shots

Download from its very homesite:
Quick Stats 1.1 @ Symbol Engine

v1.0 is still available here

QuickStats 1.0

Jim Qode — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:28:17 +0000

This version is no longer supported. QuickStats 1.1 is now available here.

Installation

1. Upload `quickstats.php` to your plugins folder, usually `wp-content/plugins/`
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen

Screen Shots

Download from its very homesite:
Quick Stats 1.0 @ Symbol Engine

Wordpress WYSIWYG issue

Jim Qode — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:13:13 +0000

Wordpress now comes with a WYSIWYG editor! If you can get it to work, that is. Because no matter what I did, I couldn't. So I started to look around for a more stable and feature packed editor plugin. I found mudbomb WYSI-Wordpress plugin. It is a giant leap forward comparing to wordpress' default one. Some of its features:

Image publishing with user defined compression rate and thumbnail size.

Images can be published as thumbnail, full-size or thumbnail with a link to full-size

Quick dictionary.com dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia lookups via a built-in plugin.

Extremely easy to install

And last but not least… It works! and wp default does not.

Grab yours at:
WYSI-Wordpress @ The Mudbomb Radio Show

Have Wordpress? Will Crash!

Jim Qode — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:06:56 +0000

Hello!

Updating the html file everytime I uploaded something was a pain in the neck so I decided to switch to WordPress. Now I don’t know if it is personal but every little script crashes on me. So did WordPress.

After I ran through the easy setup procedure with gigantic fonts (Hey what’s it with those fonts? This is not a kiosk for chrissake!) I logged in. And instead of my new, slick wp system what I saw was a whole page of an error message. It went like this:

[Data too long for column 'option_value' at row 1]
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = …

And following was a huge query. The weird thing is data type of ‘option_value’ column is longtext, which should theoretically be enough for an encyclopedia. I googled and found this bug report on WP website which didn’t even suggest a solution.
Anyway with a little research I learned all this fuss was about showing me news I didn’t need about WordPress, on my dashboard page. I installed the Dashboard Options Plugin which lets me turn off that feature. Does the trick.