it’s something…

So…after all that rambling I did last night, that reminds me I think I need to make a rule aobut not blogging after 11 PM or something, but I digress…I got in to work today and checked the webstats to see the numbers and…OK so there are hits there, but I didn’t look to see how many I had yesterday say I don’t know how many are new and I don’t know how many might have been from earlier in the day even. Needless to say my ego was less stroked than I had hoped…

So I am clicking around in the blog admin stuff and see the plugins page…hmm…I wonder if there is a plugin that counts hits? It just so happens that there is. In fact it looks like there is more than one, but as serious as this business of getting stroked is it is not serious enough to spend time researching whether one plug in is better than the other, so I grab the first one and install it.

With great anticipation I proceed to the first test…

“Jacki, can you click on my blog for me”

“Ok I am there”

“Thanks”

I click the link to open the newly installed plugin… “Hits = 0″

Shit…what the fuck…I really don’t think I could have installed it wrong there are only 4 steps to the installation…and it even says “Activated” and shows up all green highlighted and shit in the plugin list.

GRRRR

So I think I need another test…maybe the plugin will only work on entries that are created after the plugin is installed…so if you are reading this now…thanks for helping me test my plugin hit counter…or something.

Update - So after creating the post it was still not working…so I checked the instructions again: “Now it’s ready to be used - see below how to use it…” Ohhhh…see below…ooops. Turns out that in order to use the counter you have to edit a file to trigger the counter, so that is done now and it is counting…thanks for playing along.