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Here’s my suggestion: use google analytics instead. Don’t feel like a dummy. This plugin and its current installation design are not ready for prime-time. I can’t make mine work either and I am a software engineer. LOL!

I think at some point when I upgraded I received akismet and opened a wordpress.com account. I don’t remember doing that to get the API key, but I don’t know the name of the account. It is a mystery to me. There was an API key already plugged into the field for it. I used it in the stats plugin config, and I received the same error message.

I tried making a new account. I used it for akismet, but I got the same error in stats.

I gave up and kept google analytics. At least this way I don’t lose my archived stats and it is under the same account as my gmail, so I won’t get confused or locked out.

This is a great idea – but the API key from an account on a remote site (wordpress.com) for self-hosted people is a PITA, and the instructions need a little work to get things unstuck if you are locked out of your stats for some bizarre reason.

Like all things wordpress – eventually this will get squared away with better design or better instructions to work with the current design, and it will be a good plugin.

I suggest you hold off for now.

There are a few features in WordPress I would like to see.

This is definitely one.

Currently I have removed all references to all feeds from my site and the files that generate them because I have subscriber only podcasts that I hide using “hide this.”

The feeds were sending out the podcasts to everyone around my login requirement however, defeating the entire purpose for having them – to bring people in to my site directly and cause them to subscribe to it.

A great add-on feature would be:

1. The ability to turn on and off feeds by type in the admin panel

2. The ability to limit by category what goes out through the feeds

3. The ability to hide post by post from the feeds and from non-subscribers

4. The ability to hide content within a post from the feeds and from non-subscribers.

There have been plugins for this, but they are all deprecated or fail to cover the RSS feeds effectively.

I agree with you. I hate it.

I have to say that I think that XHTML validation is probably the dumbest idea I have ever seen in my life where the web is concerned. The definition of XHTML should be widened to make it flexible enough to allow someone who is uninterested in it and not likely to care about it much to use it without violating it.

All of this blogging software is in the hands of people who do not know XHMTL. They might know scant HTML. They put HTML in their blogs – such as image tags – and don’t self-close the tag. Viola! Validation error.

And yet it displays fine in a browser.

The blogging software should not be trying to “fix” this sort of thing. It should instead be allowing it, and the W3C should get off their high-horses and stop trying to deprecate things that millions of people are trained in and want to use.

The current practice of trying to develop what is essentially language by publishing updated versions and then attempting to require that everyone use it is as doomed to failure as is attempts by schools to get children to stop saying “ain’t.”

Now that I am done with that rant, I also agree that WordPress should display all tags – the RAW CODE in the post content. It should not be hiding it from me so that I cannot edit it, and it should not be adding to it or changing it to make it validate, because this causes it to not validate, and prevents someone who does not know XHTML very well from even seeing what the problem is so they can fix it when the code that won’t validate is inside the post_content of wp_posts.

You don’t want to do that. The permalinks you are already using are much better for getting ranked higher in a search engine. Search engines use the titles of pages and the urls partially to determine rankings using keywords, so havinga long, descriptive url is actually superior to a short, more easily managed and typed url.

I hope you can, because I too think it is useless bloat. I prefer to keep a separate window handy and just refresh my view there when I feel like it.

I’d also like the ability to disable some of the useless feeds that go into the admin dashboard. Three messages over the last two weeks were just wishing some girls happy birthday. That’s bandwidth I don’t need to waste.