bSuite 4 Public Beta
I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard.net is a lot of fun), kicked me into gear to actually get working on it again. The result is bSuite 4, which is probably what bSuite 3 should have been all along.
The big news is that I’ve finally revamped stats tracking to work with caching mechanisms like WP Cache, WP Super Cache, Varnish, or whatever else. I’ve also got the search word highlighting working again, and that’s cache-friendly too. Yay for javascript, I say.
And in addition to making the stats cache-friendly, I’ve made them a little smarter, faster, and more useful. bSuite now tracks sessions, and reports both the number of page loads and the number of visitors to your site. To improve performance, stats are first recorded to a small table for incoming hits, then periodically processed (“migrated”) into the tables used to report stats. This reduces contention and improves write speeds for incoming stats hits.
The stats report now gets graphs for both the previous 24 hours and 30 days of activity. And because unlike external stats solutions, bSuite is integrated into your site, it can also report on your most popular tags and categories based on traffic.
I’ve also implemented a large number of improvements, bug fixes from the previous versions. Big thanks go to Matthew Batchelder (who helped with the javascript code), Jon Link (who both pointed out a lot of bugs in bSuite 3 and helped answer questions in the forums), Zach Tirrell (who helped develop migration strategy ages ago), and to everybody who’s posted a comment or review related to bSuite.
This is beta software, and some things definitely don’t work. The stats are working solidly, the other features appear free of catastrophic bugs, and I’ve had it running (in various stages of development) here at MaisonBisson for a month now. Still, read the warranty (there is none) and don’t blame me if Boba Fett jumps out of your server after installing it.
Get the details at the bSuite page, download bSuite 4beta1 here.
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looking forward to testing out the new bSuite, the description alone got me eager
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Casey:
Thanks for the link. I kind of found this by accident, since WP Support doesn’t offer any email notification at all about posts (why?).
I REALLY appreciate you working on this new version, and you can bet I will be testing it out to see how it works. I’m also grateful for the ability for it to work with WP Super Cache.
I implore you to please grant me one more favor. It’s always been near impossible to round up appropriate information about any version of bsuite. You have to dig back through all kinds of previous posts to get any history of the project at all, or available applications or calls - and documentation of well….just about anything is scattered throughout these posts. Links to bsuite to go default search page for posts.
I see that you really don’t make use of wordpress “pages” at all. Would it possible to either create a “bsuite page” and roundup all of the posts and documentation - or at very least create a category template page for bsuite? A plugin with the capabilities of yours deservers proper documentation, a readme manual, it’s own page - anything!
thanks again!
@JTPratt:
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
http://maisonbisson.com/blog/bsuite
[...] not done tweaking it, but I’m really pleased with where it’s going. Most importantly (this one’s for you, JTPratt), however, you can now find easy links for things like bSuite and my other projects. And I’m [...]