WordPress Stats plugin problem

May 17, 2008 in questions

Today’s question:

I had “WordPress.com Stats” plugin working on my blog…but when I upgraded WordPress to the latest version, the “Blog Stats” plugin is there. I uninstalled the WordPress.com Stats one, and re-installed it, but still not there. I’ve done other things too, but I don’t want this to be a book…anyhoo, I use Google Analytics, but I just liked the WordPress.com Stats plugin.

Well before today this was a plugin I had never used, I did download it and install it on one of my blogs.

Seems to work fine there. Now as I can’t create the problem with a blog running the latest version of WordPress there are a couple of things that I would tell you to try.

Make sure that you have the latest version of the plugin (1.2.1 as of this writing). Deactivate the plugin in the dashboard. Go in through ftp and delete the existing plugin in the wp-content/plugins folder. Then upload the latest plugin to the same folder.

Go back in to your dashboard and activate the plugin. Add in your API key if needed then allow some time before that stats will start showing.

Hope that helps.

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Mike Paetzold