WordPress itself doesn’t have its own stats program. What is the name of the plugin you’re using for this? Is it Jetpack (which displays stats at WordPress.COM too), WP-Stats, WP SlimStats, or something else?
Just for clarification, this is not a feature of Slimstat, so it must be something else.
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Bob31
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James, This feature on my WP Dashboard is cited as WPStatsDashboard. And
it still isn’t indicating that I have a Twitter profile and account. I would appreciate some help to correct this problem. Thanks. Bob
Under the Plugins section of your site’s Dashboard, do you have a plugin called “WP Stats Dashboard”?
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Bob31
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James,
Yes I do, and it has been activated. What do I need to do to get it to recognize my Twitter profile?
It looks like you’re referring to https://web.archive.org/web/20140909115359/http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-stats-dashboard/ which hasn’t been actively developed for a while (there’s even a note on the archived page from 2014), and was removed from the directory at some point.
If it’s removed from the directory at that age, either the developer officially discontinued it, or the Plugins Team removed it after finding a security vulnerability. Either way, I suggest that you stop using it now.
I can’t quite find any other plugins that offer the same functionality in the free directory, though something like http://www.sharedcount.com/ may help for a more manual approach.
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Bob31
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James, I will deactivate this plugin and remove it from my WP platform. I’m trying to use the Leadin program from HubSpot to give me some data regarding the viewers of my blog, but I can’t get it to work very effectively. I’m not sure that getting stats regarding my viewers is really going to help me to expand and to strengthen my connections to interested viewers of my blog. Anyway, thanks for your feedback. Bob
My best recommendation, write what you want to write, write for yourself, then let your audience grow around that. If you write instead for a perceived audience based on stats and assumptions, you won’t enjoy it as much.
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Bob31
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James, I basically write what I think is timely and personally of concern or interest to people who are seeking to secure what is good in their lives. I invite them to talk with me and other viewers about these matters on the posts of my blog. I have over 3200 users to my WP blog who have registered their interest in my blog, but I don’t know exactly what they have viewed on my blog or what initially attracted their interest. I would like to get some information about them, but I can’t figure out how to do this. If you have some suggestions that will enable me to do this, I would be glad to give them a try. Thanks for your ongoing response to me regarding this matter. Bob
Sadly, I don’t really have any ideas on that myself besides http://www.sharedcount.com/
Oh, and of course too, most stats plugins list referrer records (where the link came from). So, if they did visit your site from Twitter itself (not an app), then it will leave that as a referrer record.
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Bob31
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James,
I understand. I think that I’m going to give up trying to get a lot of helpful information regarding the viewers to my blog from any statistical program, but I may check out the sharedcount program. Thanks again for your help with this. Bob
