Have Your WordPress Stats Stopped Working

Posted by Jeff

on November 27, 2007

So your WordPress stats don’t work?

A few days ago the theme here on WordPressMax was changed and a few days later I checked my stats in the WordPress dashboard and I saw nothing at all. Now I know I am not getting tons and tons of traffic but when I saw absolutely none for a few days I knew there was a problem with one of the plugins or the theme. If you recently changed or edited your theme this may be why. Here is a short WordPress guide to check and fix your stats.

The WordPress.com Stats uses a bit of code in your footer template to run the plugin. Even if you have a footer.php file the code below must be in the file in order for the plugin to work. I am not going to get into why or how because I don’t know and frankly all I wanted was for it to be fixed and it worked.

Open your footer.php file and make sure you have the needed code in place to run the plugin shown below, near the bottom of the file just above the closing body or html tags:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

This fix worked for me and stats started showing immediately.

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Comment by John Miedema on April 27, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

Thank you for this tip.

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Comment by Kurt Weiske on October 17, 2008 @ 9:50 am

Thanks for the tip! I moved some static pages over to WP with a custom template and it was driving me crazy trying to figure out why they weren’t showing up in the stats!

Comment by Busby SEO Test on December 20, 2008 @ 8:26 am

Ya it is. But i already upgrade the stats plugin now. And it work well.

Comment by DaveN on January 6, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

Thanks, for the awesome tip, couldn’t have done it with it!!

Comment by Busby Test on January 9, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

Sometime this happens

Comment by Inventory Management Software on January 22, 2009 @ 12:21 am

nice info.. i love WordpPess so much .. thanks..

Comment by Andy Marshell on February 19, 2009 @ 6:13 am

Thanks for the great tips. I love WP so much.

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Comment by zanalyst on February 21, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

Thanks a lot, i thought i have a real problem

Comment by zOnk.oNe on February 27, 2009 @ 7:56 pm

Thanks…I was sure this wasn’t gonna solve my issue cause I hadn’t done anything to my footer.php file…but sure enough, when I checked it, half of my code had mysteriously disappeared. Super weird…and a little scary.

Thanks for the info tho….peace

Comment by Melayu Boleh on April 23, 2009 @ 1:28 am

Have you ever considered adding more videos to your blog posts to keep the readers more entertained? I mean I just read through the entire article of yours and it was quite good but since I’m more of a visual learner,I found that to be more helpful well let me know how it turns out! I love what you guys are always up too. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the great works guys I’ve added you guys to my blogroll. This is a great article thanks for sharing this informative information.. I will visit your blog regularly for some latest post

Comment by 6-speed analyzer on May 27, 2009 @ 6:07 pm

I agree with Melayu Boleh. I think the content on your site is very informative and helpful but, you might want to consider adding more videos or pictures to help your visual learners. It would be greatly appreciated.

Comment by Nik on July 22, 2009 @ 6:40 am

Thanks for the fix!

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Comment by Catzie on September 22, 2009 @ 10:06 am

Thanks so much for this! I thought my Wordpress stats plugin would never count visits again. lol. Thank you.

Comment by Improve-Self-Esteem.org on October 16, 2009 @ 3:49 pm

Thanks man! I really wondered why no one visits my blog… then I tested it with my friend and stats didn’t work but your fix is easy and fast thanks man worked great!

I really don’t like these wp_header and wp_footer functions because they put hell of useless code into your site (comment feeds in meta for example) but seems like there is no code/function to use wordpress dot com stats without them .

Comment by DeleteAll on January 29, 2010 @ 10:47 pm

WOOOWWW! It worked like a charm, I was very upset because there were zero visits in my blog and other plugins didnt work. Thanks a lot Jeff!!!

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