Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I have been using Counterize II WordPress Plugin for quite sometime now. Counterize II is actually a very good and a very useful WordPress Statistics Plugin. It is always handy as I see the statistics at the WordPress admin panel as it saves the statistics data in my database. This is actually my problem now, as it is not using external libs, and I don’t want to delete the data, they are occupying too much space of my database.

My dilemma now is whether I should stop using this WordPress Plugin or just delete the data before so as not to occupy too much space of my database. I am not very particular about statistics but once in a while it just makes me smile looking at the data. Although I am not a Statistics freak, I am also using WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics. I like both WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics but Counterize II has features which I like too which I did not find at Google Analytics nor WordPress.com Stats. Maybe I have not fully explored WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics yet as I do not often check my statistics anyway.

While writing this, I thought, ok, I will give it a try one more time. I will check WordPress.com Stats and Google Analytics thoroughly first. If I think it is time to let go of the Counterize II WordPress Statistics Plugin, then I will just let it go.

And oh, I am hoping that one of these days, that people who developed WordPress.com Stats would try to get hold of the Counterize II Plugin developer and maybe come up of an idea of combining the other features of Counterize II with WordPress.com Stats.

Wouldn’t it be great?

Related links: Counterize II WordPress Plugin, WordPress.com Stats, Google Analytics

I decided to use WordPress as CMS (Content Management System) for my sites. I already started using it as CMS at Weggis.net. Weggis theme is based on the original design of Weggis.net when it was not using WordPress, PHP and XHTML yet. I also made several code updates at the other pages using PHP.

I also revised Weggis.net search capability. Weggis.net search is not only searching posts or entries in categories (normally the updates) but other pages as well.

Since several search engines have already indexed Weggis.net, especially google, I also placed google search at Weggis.net as another option to search the site. I also implemented this in my other sites.

Then, I revised Pandan.ph once again. This time though, WordPress is not only being used for the News and Gallery Pages. I used WordPress, specifically WordPress 2.0.4 version, as CMS for the whole site.

I just revised the codes so the web design is still the same. This WordPress theme is based on the original design of Pandan.ph when it was also not using WordPress, PHP and XHTML yet.

I also installed a new guestbook using WordPress Paged Comments Plugin. I removed the comments capability for the gallery, news and other pages. Instead of commenting at the news page and its subpages, people can only now leave their messages at the guestbook.

I removed the CGI script used for my contact page and used WordPress comment capability instead with Akismet Plugin so that comment spams could be caught and de-spammed. Comments that were de-spammed will be submitted to Akismet as mistakes so it can learn and get better.

To use Akismet, I needed Akismet WordPress.com API Key, so I opened an account with WordPress.com but then opted not to get a username only but registered a blog too, sofiehofmann.wordpress.com. I could not use my own theme though. I have an idea what to write there but still thinking of other possibilities.

Anyway, if you look at Pandan.ph, as if, there are no changes at Pandan.ph, but on my part, with regards to coding, it was such a lot of work. I could have written something about it everyday but opted not to do it. I was just too busy.

Other updates: Publications and Media pages of Green Cross Switzerland have been updated.