I’ve been hacking away the last couple of days to get myself a unique wordpress skin that melts in with the rest of the site (which is also still under construction like the blog) and suddenly my blog traffic started dropping rapidly until yesterday when it was showing only 1 visitor.
After reading through the code, I found a simple way to fix it!
The fix is fairly simple, open footer.php in your themes folder and just after the </body> tag, insert <?php wp_footer(); ?> which is responsible for loading the Wordpress Stats plugin.
Leave me a comment if it helped in anyway.
Capiche
Thanks a lot to solve this :)
Thanks, that did it for me!
Glad it helped :-)
[...] to my friend Robert today about it and got irritated enough to google it. Google came back with: http://www.mycee.net/blog/2009/01/03/wordpress-stats-not-working-since-version-27/ Apparently since my theme was based on Wordpress 2.3 I was missing the include of the footer which [...]
I tried the footer fix but to no avail, I am still looping at the API key input page
wordpress.com stats is very good and I would dearly love to get i back
Henry
Hi Henry, is it working when you’re using the standard kubrick skin? Make sure you have your API key entered correctly under “Plugins”->”WordPress.com Stats”
If you’ve entered the API key correctly and the tracking code is inserted into the footer, then it must be something preventing the tracking code from executing, will have a look and help you when I have proper internet again (that’ll be on the 1st of March), currently replying from my mobile until my ADSL is back online.
Seems the same problem with me, My blog has also already inserted as well as the API key is also correct, really cannot figure out what is wrong
Check that your footer.php is actually loaded, I’ve found with some skins, that the footer.php is never included or excluded from some pages which means the tracking code doesn’t execute.