WordPress 1.2
WordPress 1.2 final release is out, and I’ve installed it without problems. While I was at it, I also installed the updated statistics plugin, written originally by GamerZ and ported to plugin format by Ryan. You can get a whole page of interesting statistics here, or use the link right at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Among other fascinating facts, you can see who tops the league of frequent commenters (like the League of Gentlemen, only… not.). It all seems to be working fine, but let me know if you spot anything amiss.
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I do love stats! [Looking at stats, that is, not the mathematical branch--I can't stand that.
] What's supposed to happen when I click on a commenter's name in the list of most frequent commenters? It just displays exactly the same page as far as I can tell. [BTW, I see my former pseudonym tops that list if you don't count comments from yourself 
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It seems there have been 5 comments from "fuddland", which I've never used as a username--perhaps this was something that went awry with the import from MT?----- David: By default, WordPress allows readers to register and post entries as well as comments, so the link should take you to a listing of the commenter's articles, I think. Obviously this doesn't make any sense for my set up, where only I can post articles. I've hacked the plugin a bit to make it link to the commenter's URI, where one was given. I'm pretty sure that the 'fuddland' entries are trackbacks (you'll see that the linked URI points to one of your entries), as the plugin doesn't differentiate between them. I'll see if there's a way to separate out comments from trackbacks.
by bsag @ 23/05/2004 10:05 am • Permalink •
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Re #2: Aah, that all makes perfect sense. Guess I'll have to trackback more of your posts.
Alternatively you might combine rather than separate out trackback- and comment totals, since trackbacks could be considered to be remote comments.
by David @ 23/05/2004 1:06 pm • Permalink •
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I'm surprised I'm in the top five!
Then again, this is really the only web log I read on a regular basis.
One stat I would be immensely curious about is which countries your readers hail from; especially, how many of them are from the States.
by Nathan @ 25/05/2004 6:06 pm • Permalink •
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Re #3: I'm not sure that combining them would be all that easy, as the trackbacks don't have a name associated with them, so it would be hard to combine trackbacks and comments from one person, without manually making a hash<sup>1</sup> linking names to URIs.
<sup>1</sup> In the programming senseâI make the other kind of hash of things all the time
Nathan: I'm honoured. I have the data on visitor's domains in my web stats. Maybe I'll try to put together a graph sometime. I can tell you that the top domains are (in descending order): .com, .net, unresolved IP, .uk, .edu, .nl. I've also had one visit this month from someone in Kyrgyzstan. [Puts on best Rock Goddess voice] Hellooo Kyrgyzstan!
by bsag @ 25/05/2004 7:06 pm • Permalink •
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I'm impressed! I pride myself on knowing a fair bit about world geography (especially compared to most folks in the States,) but I had to look up Kyrgyzstan.
My sincere apologies to whomever your Kyrgyzstani reader is!
I'm ashamedâI copied and pasted the name "Kyrgyzstan" from your post. Three times now! And I found out the nationality is called "Kyrgyzstani" from the CIA World Factbookâand make that four copies-n-pastes...I'd better stop now.
by Nathan @ 26/05/2004 1:06 am • Permalink •
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I'm not sure that I have a Kyrgyzstani reader as suchâmore of a Kyrgyzstani who stumbled here accidentally once, and never came back.
. I'm with you on the copying and pasting: I find the name almost impossible to spell correctly. There's something about having so many consonants together that is difficult for an English speaker to get her head around. It would make a fantastic Scrabble hand (if proper nouns weren't forbidden).
by bsag @ 27/05/2004 3:05 pm • Permalink •
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