Downloads
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The wpadmin says `dashboard’ and is the only dashboard that I have anywhere.
No, it is not. Your site’s WP-Admin dashboard is at https://torahtextmakesenseofit.wordpress.com/wp-admin/, but the main WordPress.com dashboard is what you see when you click on My Sites, which will take you to https://wordpress.com/stats/torahtextmakesenseofit.wordpress.com/. All WordPress.com sites have both these interfaces.
Here are two deleted files that are still downloaded
/2015/08/kk-e.pdf
https://torahtextmakesenseofit.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/kk-e.pdf does not exist on our servers any more.
I do see a new file, uploaded in August 2019, with the same file name in your media library:
https://torahtextmakesenseofit.wordpress.com/wp-admin/upload.php?item=2272
/2015/08/vwl-dt-e4.pdf
https://torahtextmakesenseofit.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/vwl-dt-e4.pdf does not exist on our servers any more either.
If you’re seeing downloads for those files they’re likely being downloaded from cached copies of your site elsewhere on the web, like on Google’s cached pages or from the Internet Archive, and I’m in fact able to find cached copies of the second file on both those services:
Downloads from those sites will still show in your WordPress.com stats, as the cached copies of your page on those sites still include our stats tracking pixel that causes actions like views and downloads to be logged.
But we have no control over the actual content on those sites, as we don’t have access to those services’ servers. You’ll need to contact those services directly to have the files removed their servers.
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To kokkieh,
Thank you for your reply, which explains a lot.
1. As you correctly say, and as I pointed out, there is a new updated version (2019) of one of the files in the library, but it is the old one that is being downloaded. (There is also an update of the other, without the 4 so the name is different.)
2. The files are on an old cache of the site someone has, and are being downloaded from there, not directly from the site.
3. This means that my problem is due to this (the caches) and not to any bug at your end that can be sorted out — if you have a bug that is something else, your problem but not mine. So I can forget about the bug.
4. Nothing can be done about it, which simply adds to what I wrote earlier, that the download stats are meaningless. There is no point in contacting the cachers as there are probably more, and endless trouble. Perhaps from what you wrote, the views too, but I do not think so. These downloads come without views.
5. Thank you for explaining about the dashboard, which I now understand. I had (and have) never seen this word used anywhere except in WP (apart from very old motor cars but no longer generally used), it is probably widely used in American, but we are not all Americans, and the word needs to be explained. In WP it only appears in the WP admin, but WP often refers tothe' oryour’ dashboard which implies there is only one.
SUGGESTION (VERY IMPORTANT)
I suggest that WP should ALWAYS refer, as you did in your reply, to the MAIN dashboard, which makes it clear, and never tothe' oryour’ dashboard which implies there is only one (the wpadmin) and causes confusion.
Thank you again for clearing up a lot. -
Apology.
In the last paragraph. a single opening quotation mark before the words the and or has come out peculiar. A fault of the programme, not me. -
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I suggest that WP should ALWAYS refer, as you did in your reply, to the MAIN dashboard, which makes it clear, and never to the’ oryour’ dashboard which implies there is only one (the wpadmin) and causes confusion.
Sorry if my previous reply seemed confusing. Dashboard is a common term for the admin area of a website, used across the industry, and on WordPress.com we have two interfaces that fit that description. I appreciate your feedback about the terminology used.
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I undertood your previous reply but here you have not answered my question.
Is WP prepared to refer to either the main dashboard or the wpadmin dashboard, as appropriate, and NOT to refer to just the dashboard or your dashboard, which confuses? You admit yourself that you have two.
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Noting that I suspect that the wp-admin editor will be phased out (at least here at WordPress.com) at some point in the next few years, have you seen:
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Staff rarely refer to the wp-admin dashboard at all these days for the simple reason that every account created in the last approx 3 years doesn’t have a visible link to it in the “My Sites” menu. On the odd occasions that access to it is the only way to do something (bulk edits for example) then they would refer to it by name.
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