Mostafa Soufi

VeronaLabs

Parhum Khoshbakht

toxicum

Jason Crouse

<p>Track returning customers and registered users, monitor Javascript events, detect intrusions, analyze email campaigns. Thousands of WordPress sites are already using it.</p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Real-Time Access Log</strong>: measure server latency, track page events, keep an eye on your bounce rate and much more.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Bar Stats</strong>: view real-time site stats directly from the WordPress admin bar — online visitors, pageviews, and top pages at a glance.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong>: display reports in widgets or directly in posts and pages.</li>
<li><strong>Customize Reports</strong>: Customize all pages—Real-time, Overview, Audience, Site Analysis, and Traffic Sources—to fit your needs easily!</li>
<li><strong>GDPR</strong>: fully compliant with GDPR European law. Integrates seamlessly with WP Consent API. Consent banner translatable with WPML and Polylang.</li>
<li><strong>Filters</strong>: exclude users from statistics collection based on various criteria, including user roles, common robots, IP subnets, admin pages, country, etc.</li>
<li><strong>Export to Excel</strong>: download your reports as CSV files, generate user heatmaps or get daily emails right in your mailbox (via Pro).</li>
<li><strong>Cache</strong>: compatible with W3 Total Cache, WP SuperCache, CloudFlare and most caching plugins.</li>
<li><strong>Privacy</strong>: hash IP addresses to protect your users’ privacy.</li>
<li><strong>Geolocation</strong>: identify your visitors by city and country, browser type and operating system (courtesy of <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MaxMind</a> and <a href="https://browscap.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Browscap</a>).</li>
<li><strong>World Map</strong>: see where your visitors are coming from, even on your mobile device (courtesy of <a href="https://github.com/10bestdesign/jqvmap" rel="nofollow ugc">JQVMap</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Pack Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Network Analytics</strong>: Enable a network-wide view of your reports and settings.</li>
<li><strong>Email Reports</strong>: Receive your reports directly in your mailbox with customizable column mappings and HTML tables.</li>
<li><strong>Export to Excel</strong>: Download your reports as CSV files.</li>
<li><strong>Heatmap</strong>: Display a heatmap layer of the most clicked areas on your website.</li>
<li><strong>User Overview</strong>: Monitor your registered users by tracking their activities and time on site.</li>
<li><strong>User Avatars</strong>: Gravatar integration in the User Overview report for quick visitor identification.</li>
<li><strong>MaxMind Integration</strong>: Connect to MaxMind’s Geolocation API to retrieve detailed information about your visitors.</li>
<li><strong>Custom DB</strong>: Use an external database to store all the information about your visitors.</li>
<li><strong>Extended Overview</strong>: Add custom columns to the User Overview widget and export file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.6+</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>MySQL 5.0.3+</li>
<li>At least 5 MB of free web space (240 MB if you plan on using the external libraries for geolocation and browser detection)</li>
<li>At least 10 MB of free DB space</li>
<li>At least 32 Mb of free PHP memory for the tracker (peak memory usage)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Please note</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you decide to uninstall Slimstat Analytics, all the stats will be <strong>PERMANENTLY</strong> deleted from your database. Make sure to setup a database backup (wp_slim_*) to avoid losing your data.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Report Bugs</h4>
<p>Having trouble with a bug? Please <a href="https://github.com/wp-slimstat/wp-slimstat/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">create an issue</a> on GitHub. Kindly note that <a href="https://github.com/wp-slimstat/wp-slimstat" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> is exclusively for bug reports; other inquiries will be closed.</p>
<p>For security vulnerabilities, please report them through the <a href="https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wp-slimstat/vdp" rel="nofollow ugc">Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program</a>. The Patchstack team will validate, triage, and handle any security issues.</p>


SlimStat Analytics


Everything became chargeable overnight. So I uninstalled this plugin from my 72 sites. Goodbye, Slimstat


Goodbye, Slimstat

The leading web analytics plugin for WordPress

Shorthand

<h4>A new version of this plugin is now available</h4>
<p><a href="https://shorthand.com/products/shorthand-for-wordpress-install/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Shorthand for WordPress</a> brings immersive, editorial-quality visual storytelling natively into WordPress. Create and publish captivating Shorthand stories directly within WordPress — no switching between tools, no separate login required.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://shorthand.com/products/shorthand-for-wordpress-install/index.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Download Shorthand for WordPress</a></strong></p>
<p>Shorthand Connect will continue to work for existing stories and both plugins can be installed simultaneously.</p>
<h4>About this plugin</h4>
<p>This plugin will allow premium Shorthand users to connect their WordPress installation to Shorthand (<a href="https://shorthand.com" rel="nofollow ugc">shorthand.com</a>). This will allow users to single-click publish Shorthand stories into WordPress.</p>
<h3>Experimental Features</h3>
<ol>
<li>Import media assets via cron – This feature allows your WordPress installation to ingest Shorthand Story assets via a delayed CRON. This feature was introduced for users with VIP Hosted sites and those who have hard timeout limits set.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Updating</h3>
<p>https://wordpress.org/plugins/about/svn/</p>
<h3>Future Directions</h3>
<ul>
<li>A nicer feed view of the story</li>
</ul>
<h3>HTTPS</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you are experiencing issues related to assets being loaded via http (and your site is using https), check your settings and ensure that the site URLs are set to https.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
<p>Only try these after experiencing issues</p>
<ul>
<li>Firstly make sure that your www directory is owned by the correct user</li>
<li>In your wp-config.php file, add <code>define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0777 )</code>;</li>
<li>Contact help@shorthand.com and ben@shorthand.com for further support and feedback</li>
<li>Some WP Plugins can aggressively cache or control how content is displayed at the theme-level; check page templates to ensure nothing is conflicting.</li>
</ul>


Shorthand Connect

This plugin provides a simple method for publishing and updating Shorthand stories directly inside of Wordpress.

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