So in a previous post I lazily mentioned a few ‘tracking’ programs to track your visitors.
Well, I haven’t tried “MINT”, because I am quite cheap — however, amongst the other tracking programs that I have tried — which have reasonable plugins for Wordpress of course — SLIMSTAT really only fits the bill.
Interestingly enough, Slimstat is derived from Shortstat, which was the (free) progenitor of Shaun Inman’s Mint.
That is: Slimstat <-- Shortstat --> Mint
And of course, there is now Wp-Slimstat, which is a plugin for wordpress, which I believe is a version of Slimstat that has been cobbled and edited, so that Slimstat works with Wordpress … a brilliant and unappreciated job I am sure.
(btw, do not be afraid of the mostly Italian site that Wp-Slimstat is hosted on)
It does work pretty good — and as advertisied.
However, it isn’t perfect, and a few bugs do pop up.
In particular, after I uploaded it to my “plugins” folder and “activated it”, I prompty got this error:
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: cachedfilereader in /blog/wp-includes/wp-l10n.php on line 67?
Which promptly made me wet my pants.
In fact, there is a healthy “comments” section for the website, and one helpful contributor did state that you can hack a file in the wp-includes folder for wp-slimstat to work.
Just comment out the if statement on lines 3 and 6 of wp-l10n.php. Be sure you leave lines 4 and 5 uncommented. I’m not sure why but it is not passing the if statement, something to do with language problems. It appears that this is happening with the default install of WP 2.0.2
Original Code:
if ( defined(’WPLANG’) && ‘’ != constant(’WPLANG’) ) {
include_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-includes/streams.php’);
include_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-includes/gettext.php’);
}Fixed Code:
//if ( defined(’WPLANG’) && ‘’ != constant(’WPLANG’) ) {
include_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-includes/streams.php’);
include_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-includes/gettext.php’);
//}
And now it works fine!
ADDENDUM:
Shortstat has its own plugin version: Wp-Shortstat, which can be found at http://jrm.cc/archives/blog/wp-shortstat/ — I have no idea if this works … if anyone has tried it let me know.
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Actually, much belated, that error arises because most people don’t declare a language in their wp-config file — if you declare a language (probably en-US, or it), it works fine. I suspect it’s because the plugin l10nization uses the same method as wordpress, but wordpress assumes that english is the language if you don’t declare, but the plugin doesn’t.
Thanks a lot for the help on the ‘instantiate’ error. I’d been Googling around for solutions and was getting a bit frustrated.
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