Casey Bisson

@jtpratt: Here’s bSuite 4 beta:

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/bsuite

http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12142/bsuite-4-public-beta

I think it fixes a lot of the problems you identified and adds some useful new features.

@jtpratt:

Thank you for your comments. Really. I didn’t discover them until a week or so ago, but you’ve completely re-energized me on this project and I’ve finally coded up some of the things I’d meant to do all along. The SVN trunk version of the plugin now includes search word highlighting* and an entirely new stats counting mechanism. Importantly, both the SWH and stats counting are based on JavaScript, so it works with caching.

I’m coding the options panel now, including simple options to put the related posts and such in the post body without having to muck around in the theme. I hope to have it all in beta condition very soon. I’ll post again when I do.

*screenshot of the SWH: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/bsuite/trunk/screenshot-1.png

@jtpratt: thanks for the feedback.

Search term highlighting was broken in bSuite 2.x. I’m working on a new approach, but it’s not part of bSuite 3 yet. The related posts is there as a sidebar widget and a function/template tag that can be used in the loop. I’ll add an option to put the list in the post content in the next release.

The bStat reports page is changed to reflect its purpose as a tool to surface popular stories rather than a all-in-one stats tool. Because of that, bStat no longer tracks referring links, just the search terms they may contain. The plan was to include a feed from Google blog search of referring sites, but I’m embarrassed to admit that I only just now realized it’s missing that entire section. I’ll get that in the 3.02 release ASAP.