StatTraq Site Statistics Plugin and Adding It to the Admin Menu

August 18, 2005 | Filed Under WordPress | Leave a Comment

In my previous blog, I was used a plugin called StatTraq for getting site statistics. It was fairly easy to set up as it was a WordPress plugin. So it was logical that, now that Randy Peterman has updated his plugin for WordPress 1.5, that I install StatTraq for this blog as well.

You can download the beta (1.0b) here.

Also, here’s a little trick. Once you get it installed, if you want to add a link to your admin menu to jump over to StatTraq, follow the steps below.

Go to /wp-admin/ and find “menu.php”
Make a copy of the original file as a backup (just in case)
At line 14 you should see the following line:
$menu[40] = array(__(‘Options’), 6, ‘options-general.php’);
Insert the following as a new line after this line:
$menu[45] = array(__(‘StatTraq’), 8, ‘../wp-stattraq/’);
Upload your new menu.php file

That’s it, you’re done! Go to your admin panel, and you should see the link for StatTraq in your menu.

e-Tract in the Verse Randomizer

August 17, 2005 | Filed Under WordPress | Leave a Comment

I added a general link to the “verse randomizer” that goes to an e-tract from Good News & Crossway Publishing. As for the verse randomizer itself, when I was looking for one as a WordPress plugin, but couldn’t really find one that did what I wanted. So, I ended up building it myself. I’ve got a little more work to do on it and I may release it as a plugin.

Urban Legend?

August 17, 2005 | Filed Under Editorial | 1 Comment

So there is some kind of rumor circulating that, on certain elevators, if you push “Door Close” and your floor at the same time, it puts the elevator into “express mode” and will go right to the floor without stopping. I viewed this information with a certain sense of skepticsm, but nevertheless, it sounded good to me and was worth checking out. I felt it deserved special attention in my building since, a few floors below me, there is a company that occupies several floors. Their employees are constantly “interrupting” my trips to and from the lobby with their single floor “jaunts.” What better way to avoid these extra stops than with my own personal express elevator.

So I had been pushing “Door Close” in combination with my floor or the lobby (depending on my direction) and experiencing some success. I wasn’t making any stops along the way. Since this is unusual, especially during “rush hour,” I thought things were working out rather well.

However (you saw that one coming, didn’t you?), yesterday, after pushing the combination for the lobby, I made several stops along the way. Well, that shoots that idea. So it is either “urban legend” or my elevator isn’t one of those equipped with such fancy features. Personally, I think I’m storing this one in the “urban legend” category.

XAMPP

August 15, 2005 | Filed Under Web | Leave a Comment

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