Brian P

Sorry, this actually turned out to be an issue the “filter searches and archives” option. Please disregard.

I no longer need this functionality as I’m no longer using the plugin. Thanks.

Hi,

Yes, I figured that out eventually. ??

Thanks for the reply.

-Brian

I agree nobody should be using a virtual counter anymore but I have an old school client who insisted on it even though I gave them analytics. Their site has been around for 10-20 years so it wouldn’t make sense to add a counter starting at 1 when they’ve had thousands of visitors by now.

I thought maybe https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/counter-no-counting/ and others might be expecting it to work the way I do. Just my opinion but I think having a static number for a counter makes less sense.

Anyway thanks for this product and I’ll just modify for my needs no big deal.

Hi Andrew,

I realize there is a bit of a language barrier here but I’ll try to make it clear.

“count=valule + actualcount is not supported at this time, sorry” <— This what I needed so I just modified it to work this way.

I have a feeling some of the others complaining about the counter not working are expecting it to work this way too, so it might be a good idea to add support for this. One option for STATIC COUNT and another for STARTING COUNT.

Thanks,
Brian

Hi Andrew,

Consider the following shortcode: [ads-wpsitecount count=8249]

This will always display a count of 8249. I expect it to display 8249 + Actual Visitor Count.

Thanks,
Brian

Hi Andrew,

I stepped through your code a bit and see the issue. I might be confused on how the plugin is supposed to work. I expected the Default Counter Value or the count set in the shortcode to be the starting count so the counter would show the Default Counter Value + the Actual Count.

In ads_wpsitecount.php line 151 I changed:

$user_count = $count;

to

$user_count = intval($count) + intval($wpdb->get_var("SELECT Count FROM $table_name where IP='0'"));

Now I am seeing the expected result.

Thanks,
Brian

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Brian P.

Hi Andrew,

I looked into this more and this is only an issue on Windows (I’m getting the errors when running locally on my windows machine only). I checked the live site and the table does have the uppercase P. On windows the uppercase is not allowed unless we change settings so the table gets created as wp_adspage instead of wp_adsPage.

I would consider getting rid of the camel case as it could be an issue on windows servers and I’ve never seen a wp table use camel case. Just a thought.

Thanks,
Brian

Hi Andrew,

I don’t see anything for count wait time in the settings. Not sure what I’m missing here.

Under General I have: Default Counter Value, Set Counter to Default Value, Visitor-hit cooldown.

Under Cleanup I have: Cleanup intervall, Max age of the IP to remove, Defines a comma-separated list of Robots, which prevents a count.

Under Statistics I have: Page-hit cooldown

Please advise.

Thanks,
Brian

I was able to set this with the wpmem_pre_register_data hook. Was just wondering if there was anything built in for it. Thanks ??

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Brian P.

Hi Chad,

Thanks for letting me know. I didn’t mean standard as in it’s what most would want to default to but figured there would be an option for it.

Thanks,
Brian

Sounds good ??

No problem. It has been 3 days and we haven’t received any spam submissions so I’d say this fix is good to go. ??

Hi @constantcontact,

It exited out early as expected for me too. I have taken out the temp fix and put in the plugin change on a live site. I’ll let you know in a few days if the spam has stopped.

Thanks,
Brian

@constantcontact @geektome

I just tried this with Postman and stepped through the code as well. The added if block is entered and I am getting the correct response with “g-recaptcha-response” omitted. I only get the “We had trouble processing your submission.” error when I comment out the new if block and use a value for “ctct_form” which is no longer valid (invalid nonce).

@geektome I have had your temporary fix in for a few days now (also debugged it to make sure it was working) but we are still getting spam. So I’m starting to think this isn’t the only issue with the plugin.

Here is a screenshot showing how I am testing with Postman https://pasteboard.co/HUMVYm6.jpg