I went hunting for Wordpress plugins the other morning and, among other things, came across the excellent wpStats by Joe Newing. This awesome plugin collects visitor stats and displays some detailed analysis of visitor locations, browsers, OSs, pages visited, and search bots.

I thought of a few hacks that would improve the plugin, which I submitted to the author, hoping that something of mine might get included in the next release. He responded by making me “official hacker”/developer of the project, as he unfortunately has little time to work on it.

So, in the next few days I hope to be publishing my latest work on wpStats – mainly extending its features. Lucky for me the area of stats collection has great potential, so I should be able to keep thinking of improvements to make :-).

In the meantime, why not check out the most excellent current release of wpStats, right here.