Comments on: Make Popularity Contest Work with WP-Super-Cache http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/ WordPress and Web Dev From the Ground Up Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:40:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-1582 Thaya Kareeson Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:07:47 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-1582 @Chaos Inc. Wow I totally lost track of this comment for months! Sorry about that! I don't think you need to modify the sidebar.php file at all. This implementation has nothing to do with sidebar.php. @Chaos Inc.
Wow I totally lost track of this comment for months! Sorry about that!

I don't think you need to modify the sidebar.php file at all. This implementation has nothing to do with sidebar.php.

]]> By: Ways to Increase Visitor Activity on Your Blog « OMNINOGGIN http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-722 Ways to Increase Visitor Activity on Your Blog « OMNINOGGIN Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:54:00 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-722 [...] section in your sidebar where readers can easily find more interesting posts to read.  I use Popularity Contest to do [...] [...] section in your sidebar where readers can easily find more interesting posts to read.  I use Popularity Contest to do [...]

]]> By: Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 « OMNINOGGIN http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-718 Upgraded to WordPress 2.6 « OMNINOGGIN Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:28:43 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-718 [...] plugin was never 2.5 compatible so I assume that it would not be working for 2.6. Please see this post to download my working Popularity Contest [...] [...] plugin was never 2.5 compatible so I assume that it would not be working for 2.6. Please see this post to download my working Popularity Contest [...]

]]> By: Chaos Inc. http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-509 Chaos Inc. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:15:17 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-509 Hi there Thaya, Awesome thing you have done!!! However, I am actually using Hyper Cache by Satollo which is much easier to implement I guess. I tried using this plugin but it didnt work for me. After downloading the content of 2.5 (I am using 2.6.3) I noticed that you have a sidebar.php within the archived folder. Do I need to upload that by overwriting the default sidebar.php of my theme (am using Gazette by Woo)? I am trying this again and I really hope that you will help me with this if it does not work out for some reason. Thanks in advance! Hi there Thaya,

Awesome thing you have done!!! However, I am actually using Hyper Cache by Satollo which is much easier to implement I guess. I tried using this plugin but it didnt work for me.

After downloading the content of 2.5 (I am using 2.6.3) I noticed that you have a sidebar.php within the archived folder. Do I need to upload that by overwriting the default sidebar.php of my theme (am using Gazette by Woo)?

I am trying this again and I really hope that you will help me with this if it does not work out for some reason. Thanks in advance!

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-476 Thaya Kareeson Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:42:22 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-476 @LastOne I'm asking if you can look at the visitor logs to see what type visitors got recorded with PHP counting vs. JS counting. You can do so by logging into your chCounter admin and clicking on the "Log data" page. @LastOne
I’m asking if you can look at the visitor logs to see what type visitors got recorded with PHP counting vs. JS counting. You can do so by logging into your chCounter admin and clicking on the “Log data” page.

]]> By: LastOne http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-475 LastOne Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:26:40 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-475 Yes, i just copied the database and only changed url and database name ... so all settings must be the same Yes, i just copied the database and only changed url and database name … so all settings must be the same

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-474 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:46:15 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-474 O, I see, you have an irregular plugins structure. Is there a reason for that? It would've been easier for you to just place all contents of the zip file under under plugins/popularity-contest/* and move poplarity-contentest-js.php to your wp-content/ directory. That way the plugin will get recognized by the dashboard too. O, I see, you have an irregular plugins structure. Is there a reason for that? It would’ve been easier for you to just place all contents of the zip file under under plugins/popularity-contest/* and move poplarity-contentest-js.php to your wp-content/ directory. That way the plugin will get recognized by the dashboard too.

]]> By: ZimTimes http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-473 ZimTimes Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:41:03 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-473 Ok, I think I found the issue. The popularity-contest-js.php has a require plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php line in it. I have changed this now to plugins/popularity-contest.php THis should fix it, shouldn't it? Ok, I think I found the issue. The popularity-contest-js.php has a require plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php line in it. I have changed this now to plugins/popularity-contest.php THis should fix it, shouldn’t it?

]]> By: ZimTimes http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-472 ZimTimes Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:34:22 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-472 Aye, thanks for taking the time to do this. Trust me, I am feeling really dub right now, but do need this to work. The js.php file is actually directly under the wp-content/ folder, and is not locate in any subfolder there. The only thing I see from the firebug report above is that my popularity-contest.php file is directly under the plugins/ folder, and not within a subfolder like so plugins/pupularity-contest/popularity-contest.php I think when I tried to do it this way before, the plugin was not recognized by the wordpress dashboard. Should I do this? Aye, thanks for taking the time to do this. Trust me, I am feeling really dub right now, but do need this to work. The js.php file is actually directly under the wp-content/ folder, and is not locate in any subfolder there. The only thing I see from the firebug report above is that my popularity-contest.php file is directly under the plugins/ folder, and not within a subfolder like so plugins/pupularity-contest/popularity-contest.php I think when I tried to do it this way before, the plugin was not recognized by the wordpress dashboard. Should I do this?

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-471 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:14:05 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-471 <a href="#comment-470" rel="nofollow">@ZimTimes</a> You do not need to add the above quoted javascript to your footer. Please leave it out.<br/> I just went to your site, enabled firebug and inspect the section of your site that's supposed to call the javascript and count the visitor in popularity contest and I see: <blockquote> <b>Warning</b>: main(plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php</b> on line <b>3</b><br /> <br /> <b>Warning</b>: main(plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in <b>/home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php</b> on line <b>3</b><br /> <br /> <b>Fatal error</b>: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in <b>/home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php</b> on line <b>3</b> </blockquote> Did you follow instructions and <blockquote> Move popularity-contest-js.php directly under your wp-content/ directory? </blockquote> @ZimTimes
You do not need to add the above quoted javascript to your footer. Please leave it out.

I just went to your site, enabled firebug and inspect the section of your site that’s supposed to call the javascript and count the visitor in popularity contest and I see:

Warning: main(plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php on line 3

Warning: main(plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php on line 3

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘plugins/popularity-contest/popularity-contest.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/thezi0/public_html/wp-content/popularity-contest-js.php on line 3

Did you follow instructions and

Move popularity-contest-js.php directly under your wp-content/ directory?

]]> By: ZimTimes http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-470 ZimTimes Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:50:25 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-470 Well, I cannot figure out the reason why, but my Popularity Contest is only counting comments, and pings, but seemingly nothing else. I have removed the above quoted javascript from my footer. Should I leave it on there/ This all is confusing me now. Well, I cannot figure out the reason why, but my Popularity Contest is only counting comments, and pings, but seemingly nothing else. I have removed the above quoted javascript from my footer. Should I leave it on there/ This all is confusing me now.

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-469 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:24:04 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-469 <a href='#coment-468' rel="nofollow">@LastOne</a> I'm not sure why the numbers are different from just the data that you give me. Have you looked into the online log for both chcount and chcount2 and see if you can figure out what kind of visitors did not get counted? @LastOne
I’m not sure why the numbers are different from just the data that you give me. Have you looked into the online log for both chcount and chcount2 and see if you can figure out what kind of visitors did not get counted?

]]> By: LastOne http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-468 LastOne Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:02:38 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-468 87 were count by php-version 30 by java-version same goes for the other figures 87 were count by php-version
30 by java-version

same goes for the other figures

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-466 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:32:05 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-466 <a href="#comment-463" rel="nofollow">LastOne</a> What do you mean by 87/30 and 401/46? Do you mean pageviews/unique visitors? LastOne
What do you mean by 87/30 and 401/46? Do you mean pageviews/unique visitors?

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-465 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:30:15 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-465 <a href="#comment-461" rel="nofollow">ZimTimes</a> As I said before, you do not need chCounter to get Popularity Contest to work. ZimTimes
As I said before, you do not need chCounter to get Popularity Contest to work.

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-464 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:28:50 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-464 <a href="#comment-460" rel="nofollow">@LastOne</a> I just looked at the chCounter source code to figure this out. It's quite clever actually. The "noscript" part will execute when the visitor doesn't have javascript enabled. When this happens, the browser will try to access the "counter.php?mode=noscript" version of chCounter, which just counts the visitor with minimal information logged. Things like referrer URL, search phrase, etc are not logged since you do not have access to it via javascript variables. @LastOne
I just looked at the chCounter source code to figure this out. It’s quite clever actually. The “noscript” part will execute when the visitor doesn’t have javascript enabled. When this happens, the browser will try to access the “counter.php?mode=noscript” version of chCounter, which just counts the visitor with minimal information logged. Things like referrer URL, search phrase, etc are not logged since you do not have access to it via javascript variables.

]]> By: LastOne http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-463 LastOne Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:05:53 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-463 Thaya i just tested your code against the php-version. I made 2 installs, 2 databases. chcounter (PHP) and chcounter2 (JAVA): The Stats are very Different: Visitors tody: 87/30 Page Views today: 401/46 Do you have any idea why php counts so much more? Thaya i just tested your code against the php-version. I made 2 installs, 2 databases. chcounter (PHP) and chcounter2 (JAVA):

The Stats are very Different:

Visitors tody: 87/30
Page Views today: 401/46

Do you have any idea why php counts so much more?

]]> By: ZimTimes http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-461 ZimTimes Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:31:43 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-461 Do I need to install chCounter on my site for the above script to make popularity contest work? I am confused! If yes, where do I get chCounter? Do I need to install chCounter on my site for the above script to make popularity contest work? I am confused! If yes, where do I get chCounter?

]]> By: LastOne http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-460 LastOne Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:40:35 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-460 Yes, i changed the URL ;) How about Visitors without Java? I guess thex aren't count with chcounter then? What does the "noscript" part exactly do? Yes, i changed the URL ;)

How about Visitors without Java? I guess thex aren’t count with chcounter then? What does the “noscript” part exactly do?

]]> By: Thaya Kareeson http://omninoggin.com/wordpress-posts/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-458 Thaya Kareeson Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:57:55 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/2008/03/30/make-popularity-contest-work-with-wp-super-cache/#comment-458 @LastOne, No problem. I'm sure you remembered to change the omninoggin.com URL in the javascript to your own counter URL.<br/> I had a wonderful vacation with lots of outdoors activities. It's good to get out once in a while. @LastOne,
No problem. I’m sure you remembered to change the omninoggin.com URL in the javascript to your own counter URL.

I had a wonderful vacation with lots of outdoors activities. It’s good to get out once in a while.

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