8
November
2009
Fixing Wordpress Stats Plugin Showing No Visitors
Designing and creating a Wordpress theme from scratch can be tedious, especially for first timers. There are a lot of things to remember and to consider, such as the layout, color scheme, widgets and plugins, among others. Last time, I shared some tools that can aid in this design task:
- 960 Grid System for Layouting, and
- Color Scheme Designer.
When installing the theme for the first time, it’s important to double-check that the things that work before, should still work: the links, the images, the widgets and especially the plugins. One of the plugins I use to track site statistics is the Wordpress.com stats. When you activate the theme and find out that there are no visitors, try the following:
- Deactivating and Reactivating the plugin, or
- Ensuring the correct API key is entered, or
- Ensuring that the wp_footer() function is included in your footer, before the closing body tag:
<div id="footer">
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The usual culprit is the missing footer function. Ensuring that it’s included will surely save you headaches in troubleshooting missing stats.
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