Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

I finally upgraded all the eight (8) sites that I maintain using WordPress as CMS. I spent the whole day yesterday backing up the database, saving some files, upgrading the sites except for my personal blog, and also upgrading all the WordPress Plugins that I’m using with the different sites.

All the WordPress Plugins that I’m using are all compatible with WordPress 2.6. So far, no major problems occurred. Everything went fine. I followed the same procedure when I upgraded the sites before. Just kindly read my other blog entries on Upgrading WordPress as I will not explain about it here anymore.

Just a reminder though, when you upgrade to WordPress 2.6 and upgrade WordPress Plugins that you are using, make sure you deactivated all the WordPress Plugins. I suggest that you delete all the old versions of the WordPress Plugins not just overwrite them and upload the new ones to avoid scripting errors.

I will also not discuss about the new features of the new WordPress version. So if you would like to know more about it, read about Wordpress 2.6 “Tyner” at the WordPress site. Once again, Matt discussed the new features extensively.

Well, that’s all and have fun exploring WordPress 2.6 “Tyner”.

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