Tag: WP Statistics

PHP 7.1 Support

WP Statistics has not yet been tested on PHP 7.1 and reports so far (As of February 2017) indicate there are issues.  As PHP 7.1 is still relatively new it is not recommended at this time.

PHP 7 Support

WP Statistics is PHP 7 compliant, however some versions of PHP 7 have bugs that can cause issues. One know issue is with PHP 7.0.4 causing memory exhaustion errors, newer versions of PHP 7 do not have this issue. At this time (August 2016) WP Statistics seems to run fine with PHP 7.0.10, however you […]

I’ve changed the permissions for WP Statistics access and now I’ve lost access to it myself, how to I fix it?

If you have access to phpMyAdmin (or similar tool) you can query the wp_options table: SELECT * FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘wp_statistics’; Then edit the value, inside the string will be something like (note: “edit_plugins” will be whatever permission you selected): s:15:”read_capability”;s:12:”edit_plugins”;s:17:”manage_capability”;s:12:”edit_plugins”; Replace it with: s:15:”read_capability”;s:14:”manage_options”;s:17:”manage_capability”;s:14:”manage_options”;

Does WP Statistics work with caching plugins?

Probably not, most caching plugins don’t execute the standard WordPress loop for a page it has already cached (by design of course) which means the WP Statistics code never runs for that page. This means WP Statistics can’t record the page hit or visitor information, which defeats the purpose of WP Statistics. We do not […]

How can I disable the plugin without access to the admin area?

You can manually disable plugins in WordPress by simply renaming the folder they are installed in. Using FTP or your hosting providers file manager, go to your WordPress directory, from ther go to wp-content/plugins and rename or delete the wp-statistics folder.

The GeoIP database isn’t downloading

The GeoIP database isn’t downloading and when I force a download through the settings page I get the following error: “Error downloading GeoIP database from: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb.gz – Forbidden” This means that MaxMind has block the IP address of your webserver, this is often the case if it has been blacklisted in the past due to […]

Introduction

Welcome to WP Statistics! This plug-in is designed to track your visitor statistics in WordPress, completely locally without any external services. There are several key items to note about WP Statistics: No external services are required, all code and data runs locally on your system. Aggregate data is stored whenever possible, when specific data is […]