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bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v7)

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:14:17 +0000

[innerindex]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from Zach and Matt, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is not bs3. It’s a transitional release intended to fix some bugs in b2 and make upgrading easier. This upgrade is recommended for all current bsuite users and new users.

bsuite Features

Tracks page loads (hits)
Tracks search terms used by visitors ariving at your site via search engines
Reports top-performing stories via a function that can be included in the sidebar
Reports recent comments via a function that can be included in the sidebar
Reports top search terms via a function that can be included in the sidebar
Outputs a pulse graph of activity on your site or specific stories
Lists related posts at the bottom of the current post’s content
Suggests posts that closely match the search criteria for visitors who arrive via search engines
Integrates bsuite_speedcache
Does some stuff with tags

Fixed/Changed/Added

As mentioned above, a huge-but-invisible feature here is that this version includes some pieces that will make it easy to transition to the new plugin.
MySQL errors while creating the tables should now be fixed. It’s my shame that these have persisted so long.
The plugin now “rebuilds the tags table” as soon as you activate it. This is a good thing, but if you’ve got a huge number of posts (or a really short max execution time) it might cause a problem (please leave a comment if it does).
The related posts feature now works even if you aren’t tagging your posts. If there are no tags, the post’s title is used as a search string.
This list is probably incomplete and in some other way inaccurate. It’s not intentional, I’m just sloppy. Please leave comments with bug reports or corrections, I’ll do what I can to fix them.
Finally, I’m now hosting the download on a new server, so it won’t be subject to .Mac’s bandwidth consumption limits.

bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v6)

Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:39:28 +0000

[innerindex]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available. It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin.

bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v3)

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:56:13 +0000

[innerindex]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users.

bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2b)

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:17:38 +0000

[innerindex]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week. Fixes A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases.

bsuite Features: The Photo Spread

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:49:34 +0000

bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site.

bsuite WordPress Plugin (b2 release)

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:52:05 +0000

[innerindex]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat.

bstat Beta 4 Release

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:58:21 +0000

[[pageindex]]UPDATE: shout outs to Zach, Cliff, Justin, and Thomas who’ve submitted bug reports. Their feedback has been rolled in to the B4 July 20 release, available now (look for the link below).

This is likely the last release before the code gets bundled into bsuite (more details on that later).

Changes

This documentation supersedes any previous documentation.

More changes to the bstat_pulse() function; bstat_pulse_style() is no longer used. It’s been replaced by a flag in the call. See the usage example to understand. Want to customize the style? Start with that example, look at the XHTML it outputs, work from there. UPDATE thanks to Zach, these parameters are all optional. You can call it with nothing more than “bstat_pulse()”, if that’s your thing. Still, I’d recommend using the full example below.

There are a lot of improvements to the management console. The number of lines to display for each category and the date range (past day, week, month, etc.) are now configurable.

Quick Start Installation

Download and unzip bstat.zip
Place bstat.php in you wp-content/plugins directory
Place spacer.gif in your wp-content directory
Log in to your WordPress admin panel and activate the plugin, then visit the new bstat submenu of the options tab. This will allow bstat to create its database tables.
Add the bstat_hitit function to the footer.php of your theme (or in some other place where it will be called once for each page load). This starts the counting; you can see the results in the bstat submenu of the manage tab of the WordPress admin panel.

In order to view the bstat results on your public pages, you’ll need to the bstat display functions to your pages.

bstat Beta 3 Release

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:33:43 +0000

UPDATE: bstat has been updated. Beta 2 never went public. This is beta 3. Changes

bstat Beta 1 Release

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:40:24 +0000

UPDATE: bstat has been updated. I’ve finally added a clean admin interface to my bstat WordPress stats tracking plugin and cleaned up the code for release as a public beta.

WordPress Stats Goodness

Mon, 30 May 2005 01:35:29 +0000

Work on my bstats plugin continues. I’ve added recently commented posts tracking, begun work on a usage graph, as requested by Richard Akerman, and put together an interesting way to track usage of the Google ads.