Title: Requests &amp; Suggestions
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Requests & Suggestions

 *  Resolved [eupalinos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eupalinos/)
 * (@eupalinos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/)
 * Hello, Camu.
 * First off, thank you for a great plugin.
 * It would be great if you could add a small delete button in each entry’s status
   bar in the “Real-Time Log” for immediate removal of unwanted entries (from testing
   websites, or personal entries logged when using different browsers, and so on.)
 * It would be much faster than copying a single unwanted entry’s IP address and
   then paste it in –> settings –> maintenance –> delete_page_views_where and then
   remove it.
 * Just think it over.
 * Best.
 * M.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-slimstat/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/#post-5588236)
 * Very interesting idea. Most of the functionality is already implemented as part
   of other tools (async loading), so it wouldn’t be a problem. I will add it to
   3.9.1. A vote for Slimstat would be a good way to say thank you 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [eupalinos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eupalinos/)
 * (@eupalinos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/#post-5588288)
 * This is an excellent plugin, Camu.
 * If you could find a way to integrate SlimStats natively inside webservers the
   like of Apache2 or Nginx in Unix distributions (Ubuntu and so on,) I think you
   could even make some money, at some point.
 * Since last year, DigitalOcean has been offering basic VPS “droplets” at a very
   convenient price, starting from $5 per month; they have a lot of tutorials covering
   about everything from the installation of a virtual Unix server to its maintenance,
   and there are flocks of people who have been switching over to them (and to similar
   companies.) Many previous Hostgator / GoDaddy customers are becoming little developers
   themselves, building and maintaining their own VPS server (mail server included.)
 * However, I found out there’s a lack of a decent free Web Stats software (free
   doesn’t mean one can’t make money from it, for instance offering specially tailored
   deals to companies all over the web.)
 * Awstats is an outdated statistics program, even if everybody is still using it.
   Piwik is a recent Web Stats software, but I think it’s far from being clear, 
   simple and complete as SlimStats is. For starters, you could take a look at how
   Piwik works, which is interesting. Like in Piwik, you could develop SlimStats
   with its own Mysql database inside a proper Unix environment. Then, as Piwik 
   does, you could write a lightweight plugin to be used with WordPress, which would
   only read from the main SlimStats Unix database.
 * You would then have two SlimStats versions: your WP SlimStats plugin as it is
   now, plus a separate SlimStats Unix version, and a tiny WordPress plugin integration
   of the latter. Starting from an almost mainstream distribution like Ubuntu would
   be great. Piwik has a folder inside the /var/www/ folder (where the WordPress
   installation resides,) but you could put your “SlimStat Unix” inside its own 
   folder in /etc/slimstats.
 * Take a look at the many DigitalOcean tutorials on how one deploys a LAMP (Linux-
   Apache-Mysql-Php) “droplet” with Ubuntu 14.04, and then start from there. The
   process is quite straightforward, and I’m sure you already have the skills to
   go through all that.
 * A few last words: Nginx (it’s a webserver like Apache / Apache2, but it’s slimmer
   than the latter and less resource-thirsty,) is rapidly gaining its share of the
   webserver market at the expense of the heavier Apache. You may take that into
   account as well, and test your software in both environments.
 * Much food for thought (too much, maybe.) But I’ll be glad if anything of the 
   above is going to stir your interest.
 * Again, thank you for a great plugin.
    This may be the right time for WP SlimStats
   to take another leap forward.
 * Best.
 * M.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/#post-5588458)
 * Hi again,
 * this is great, but we currently don’t have any plans to port Slimstat as a stand-
   alone software. Also because some of the information it collects comes from the
   WP environment it sits into (current user, categories, permalinks, etc). We believe
   Piwik is a great tool for stand-alone analytics, and it can easily compete with
   Google Analytics. However it lacks the native integration with WordPress, that
   differentiates it from Slimstat. Our business model, at this stage at least, 
   is to continue expanding this integration with the host CMS, both in core and
   via add-ons.
 * But maybe someone, one day, will take your idea and port our software (which 
   is open source and released under GPL) into a stand-alone version that people
   can enjoy as part of a Linux distro.
 * Cheers,
    Camu
 *  Thread Starter [eupalinos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eupalinos/)
 * (@eupalinos)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/#post-5588466)
 * Thanks a lot, Camu, for adding the nifty little feature above already; it works
   like a charm!
 * Best!
 * M.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/requests-suggestions/#post-5588468)
 * You’re very welcome!

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