Fear and Loathing on the Learning Curve: Observations on Life, Tech and Web Design from a Slightly Misanthropic Mind

wpStats Development

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.