StatTraq for WordPress 2.x

StatTraq is a WordPress plugin I use to analyze my blog statistics. It reports on how many unique visitors and how many page hits the site has had, the search terms used to find the site, the web address of sites who are sending visitors, which posts are most popular, and other traffic statistics.

I have been running StatTraq for almost 2 years but with the new version of WordPress I would need a new version of StatTraq. The original author of StatTraq has had to abandon the project, but while searching for what I would have to do to bring the plugin current I found that two new branches of the project have been started.

The first project I found is being developed by Murph at The FunZone. The second project I found is being put together by AdsWorth over at sieker.info. Both authors have left comments on each others blogs about combining the two branches into one but it appears that nothing has come of this yet.

The version of StatTraq I had been running had some tweaks and hacks that I had put together from around the web. Some of these were incorporated into Murph’s version, but not all. I was very glad to find that another user, Evans, had already gone to the trouble of patching Murph’s version to include these fixes.

I have some other hacks that I did to the old version that I will have to look at incorporating, but I am just glad to have my stats up and running.