from the plugin description (your link):
The plugin allows you to choose from a number of different styles, it can be embedded in the footer or activated as a sidebar widget. By default it will display in your footer, to change these settings simply activate it as a widget in your themes appearance section and change the options there.
have you checked and tried that?
i haven’t worked with that plugin, but to me, that sounds as if there is an option panel in ‘dashboard’ ‘appearance’ where you can set the counter to be a widget; and then use that widget to drag into the widget area in ‘dashboard’ ‘appearance’ ‘widgets’ (?)
if not, come back here.
Yeah I’ve tried that, and the problem which I encountered was when I activate it through the widgets sections it knocks out everything else i have in the side bar, so what i’ve been doing is just keeping the settings activated and “calling” the plugin up by putting the “get_….” code into the sidebar setting. Most of the plugins i’ve worked with usually offer the code that can be put into whichever php you want it to show up for but wasn’t able to clearly find this one.
Most of the plugins i’ve worked with usually offer the code that can be put into whichever php you want it to show up for but wasn’t able to clearly find this one.
you are right – i had a look, and there does not seem to be a single functions call to insert the counter into existing php code.
when I activate it through the widgets sections it knocks out everything else i have in the side bar
this might be caused by the way your theme uses widgets; and might be fixed with some css, or a look into the ‘register_sidebar()’ code.
if you are extremely interested to get the hitcounter to run, you might need to post a link to your site here, with the counter widget installed and the broken sidebar visible.
thanks for looking into it. I think i am going to just search for another simple counter plugin with a call code given – think that would be easier than messing with the theme code for now as i am still new to this. thanks again though.
