chrissard

Guys, glad to hear you got this working for some.

Alas, I’m still out of luck. Using the latest WordPress 6.0.1 and the latest Plugin version 0.3.3, the only thing that’s reliably working is:
4 db-tables with “track_the_click” in their name get created upon plugin activation, with the same db-tables getting deleted upon plugin uninstallation.

I never ever get to see a single record in any of those tables, no matter what. Not for pre-existing links, not for newly created ones, not for fully external links nor for links on my own domain but outside of the WordPress context.

So rating this issues as “Resolved” seems a little premature to me.

Regards,
Chris

Daniel,

thanks for coming back to me.

Yes, I confirm that the “Exclude URLs” box is still empty.

And yes, I’d be comfortably with using phpMyAdmin. I have used it before. Just let me know what queries I’m supposed to run.

Chris

Hi Daniel,

thanks for your reply. I am using the most recent version of “Track the Click” (0.3.0). The Settings > Other tab shows an empty panel, with not a single line in it which could be deleted.

This is the explanatory text above the panel:

`As standard we try to exclude your own domain name from the click views. We do this by adding your Site Address – currently https://vielzutun.ch/wordpress – to the domain exclusion list. This is set under <strong>Settings -> General -> Site Address</strong>.
Sometimes you might have internal links that don’t match the Site Address. For example if your Site Address is
https://domain.com
you might also have links in your site of the form
https://www.domain.com
In these instances you will need to add the extra variations of your site to the exclusion list. The clicks are still recorded, but they will be hidden in the various click views to help you interpret your data better.
Please add any domains you want to exclude to the list below. Please add one domain per line only.`

There also isn’t a visible Site address entry on the Settings > General tab of “Track the Click”.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for having a 2nd look.

Best,

Chris

I would like to second this proposal.

In my case I would also prefer a public facing and lifetime solution. Since I’m not experiencing traffic in the multiple thousands range, I’m not afraid to experience some “noise” every once in a while. Which would only become visible once you refresh a page, right?

I specifically registered with WordPress to be able to participate in this discussion:

imho, removing an action from the action stack or using a static variable to ensure an action is only performed once, even though hooks may fire multiple times, is not really an option when it comes to counting views per post/page. After all, _all_ existing posts/pages (plus all future ones as well) should be counted, on every visit, not just the 1st one.

Isn’t there another way?