How to Install the StatPress Statistics Plugin In a WordPress Blog

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By Heather U.
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When you're running a blog, to assess your impact on the blogging community, it's essential to know your stats. With StatPress you can easily gather information on your visitors, feeds, spiders and what words are searched to get to your blog. Once it's installed, StatPress gives you information about your visitor preferences on your blog like their favorite posts and categories. StatPress is located in the Dashboard but can also be used as a sidebar widget or added with PHP code.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Go to the WordPress plug-in site (see the Resources section below) and search for StatPress. At this point it may ask you to login. If you do not have a login for the plugin directory you will be asked to create one.
Step 2

Download the StatPress plugin. Downloading it to your desktop is fine, but making a folder for all your plugin downloads is a good idea because it keeps them all organized in case you have a problem with your blog.
Step 3

Upload the newly downloaded plugin (wp-statpress) into the wp-content/plugins/.
Step 4

Depending on your host, you will either unzip or extract the file. This exact steps of this will vary from host to host. For more information use the help area or contact customer service for your host.
Step 5

Go into the plugins page and activate WordStat.

Tips & Warnings

Please note that plugins are only for WordPress blogs that are hosted, not for free WordPress accounts. WordPress offers a variety of hosting offers depending on your need.
When you have to update the plugin, be sure to deactivate the old one first, follow the upgrade steps and then reactivate it.

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