Stats Classics: How to set?
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Yes, as soon as I found the next solution how to access the old stats page, it’s now gone too. Look how they fight to bring us to the new stats screen. How embarrassing.
For now the next solutions is to click on “my sites” then opening the dashboard section if it isn’t already, and click on “site stats”. This opens the classic stats that are superior to the new stats as well.
Or as fjordaniv said, in another thread… you can use this link too: https://wordpress.com/my-stats/
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So as you folks hate the new editor, hate the new stats page, hate the new dashboard changes, and hate the other changes that have been made, and as it is clear that Staff are moving forward with the new design I have a rhetorical question to pose.
What steps have you taken towards looking into moving your content into a self hosted WordPress.ORG install, or to a provider that provides a blogging platform with features and functions that better suit your needs?
I did that already because I cannot see the point in wasting my time on beating dead horses. Blogging is supposed to be a pleasurable experience and when the pleasure is gone why blog on and vent here day in and day out? From my point of view that appears to be all these multiple threads with the same folks posting over and over again into them really amount to.
We all deserve to be happy and we all have the ability to make ourselves happy by moving to self hosting or to another blogging platform. Maybe the time to make a decision between those two viable options has come.
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Clicking directly on My Sites now brings you to the “Bluer Than Thou” dashboard/stats page (they seem to be anticipating our workarounds, @diaryofdennis), but if you hover on the My Sites menu and select WP admin, you can access the classic dashboard.
Click the Show More button in the stats module.
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How can I set my page so that I always have the “classics” Stats page?
There are two old Stats pages and they are both available from the classic dashboard. You can go directly to the classic dashboard by logging in here: https://wordpress.com/wp-login.php?.
The old Stats pages are
1. https://YourWeirdWebsiteName.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=stats (really old, “classic”). Link is found in the dashboard admin panel in the “Dashboard” drop-down menu (clock symbol).
2. https://wordpress.com/my-stats/ (kinda old, “super classic”). The link is found in the dashboard navigation menu, in the website title drop-down menu.
Or just add a bookmark to a bookmarks toolbar.
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And to make things even more absurd….the new mobile stats interface is dysfunctional too.
Previously, on my Android phone, the stats could be updated by dragging your finger over the “pull to refresh” bar at the top of the screen. Now there is no indication of how to refresh the stats. I only discovered how to do it by randomly touching different parts of the display.
There is a button with a rotating arrow that you pull down from the top of the screen to refresh the stats, but the button does not always emerge by touching the same spot on the screen. And when you do find the right spot to drag, the button often has to be dragged out three or four times before it will stay on the screen and the rotating arrow will turn to indicate that updating is happening.
There is also an option at the top of the screen for “View Full Site” – again, which I discovered randomly – which takes you to the “classic” mobile stats screen. However, the view and visitor numbers on this screen are often higher than on the initial screen – even if that screen has just been updated.
It’s bad enough that WP is trying to force users into accepting the new “mobile-friendly” stats format. But the new format doesn’t even work that well on a mobile device. This only suggests, as @fjordaniv has indicated, that WP doesn’t really know what it’s doing with these updates.
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Just a dumb thought here – why didn’t WP leave the old features alone and introduce the new, and supposedly improved ones, as options? Then they could see how many people really wanted the new version.
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I’ve been considering that possibility. I’ve paid for upgrades and a theme already, and while my site has a very specialized subject and relatively low traffic, it’s been linked through a number of other site, so I have a reasonable investment in WP.com
Part of WordPress.com’s initial appeal was it’s stability; I’d hate to have to pay a monthly/yearly fee for a hosting service that might fold in a matter of time. WP.com provided me with many of the features of a self-hosted site without the added cost or concern (and I did once have a self-hosted site, so I’m familiar with the differences).
But these changes, coupled with the WP staff’s insistence on ignoring our feedback, have me rethinking my commitment to WP.com, so I might find myself opting for a different service or system altogether. It’s aggravating that WP.com is stripping away features and usability in an attempt to cater to microbloggers.
Perhaps we should consider starting a thread on alternative services.
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What steps have you taken towards looking into moving your content into a self hosted WordPress.ORG install, or to a provider that provides a blogging platform with features and functions that better suit your needs?
I am researching already about hosts. It’s seven years ago when I selfhosted one of my blogs. My problem is that I am not interested in shared hosting as I don’t really want to have problems with badnwidth again. I think about vps hosting at the moment. I am reading already reviews about different hosts, it’s just that I didn’t make decision yet.
However, if I do, this will bring in costs of around $30 monthly, while it is at the moment on wp.com so that I am in the wordads program and rather earn than having costs (I only pay for my domains yearly). That is my issue. I know that I can monetize my blog even more flexible later with selfhosting, however, there are some things to consider before I make these decisions about moving. There is a lot to think about.
But you are right, this is something in my mind since a month and since they moving backward here.
Apart from that, I collected so much experience that it is also a question if it wouldn’t be a nice idea to start a new blog selfhosted with that experience and more professional maybe even as a niche blog. But in this case the old blogs would be still useful. ;)
So, as you can see, for me all this is a dilemma. In all the six years I didn’t see a reason to go selfhosting, but now the changes are a real problem. Until now I thought they will at least leave one link to the old stats and so. But it really seems that I am wrong as they constantly remove links that lead to the old screens.
I don’t know, it might happen that I take the steps too. It’s already in my mind because I start to get very sick about the wp.com embarrassment too.
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@fjordaniv
I have been here for over 8 years and when I began there was single Support Staff member. Like you I have upgrades and I have them on two blogs.It’s aggravating that WP.com is stripping away features and usability in an attempt to cater to microbloggers.
Yes it is and we either choose to suffer or we choose to put an end to our suffering. One either acts to improve their situation or they do not act and continue to vent day in and day out and create yet more venting threads. It is that simple. I acted and I am creating my own happiness.
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I’ve been considering that possibility. I’ve paid for upgrades and a theme already, and while my site has a very specialized subject and relatively low traffic, it’s been linked through a number of other site, so I have a reasonable investment in WP.com
I think it’s possible to move without loosing any links and so.
Part of WordPress.com’s initial appeal was it’s stability; I’d hate to have to pay a monthly/yearly fee for a hosting service that might fold in a matter of time. WP.com provided me with many of the features of a self-hosted site without the added cost or concern (and I did once have a self-hosted site, so I’m familiar with the differences).
Exactly my reason why I stayed here. Everything was fine, I didn’t want to pave my blog with all kind of plugins anyway. Wp.com offered the core, I didn’t need anything more, and not only this, we have the benefits of free cloud hosting here. Nobody can kick you out of the contract as it can happen with shared hosts due to high bandwidth usage.
I agree, everything was fine, but the latest changes are horrible, which is why a lot of us consider already the posibility to move to selfhosting.
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Threats of leaving aren’t going to even make a ripple as far as WP administration is concerned. If Two thousand top bloggers depart, it’s still peanuts to them. I have no intention of cutting off my nose to spite my face. I have thousands of followers and what I’m doing is immensely important to me I’m providing free music scores for young students and composing and getting them out there is my life.
So I won’t be leaving WordPress.
I’m merely hoping that reason will prevail. Not howling and screeching but simple reason.
People who are using large screen computers ( professionals ) do not like the new format because it entails endless scrolling. We like to check out our stats in a wink. The old system was excellent.
Why not allow a CHOICE. Why is this so difficult? If anyone from administration can answer this simple question … my ears are open.
I think we should be stressing that we should be allowed the option. That would put an end to all this controversy. In a nano-second.
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Threats of leaving aren’t going to even make a ripple as far as WP administration is concerned. If Two thousand top bloggers depart, it’s still peanuts to them. I have no intention of cutting off my nose to spite my face. I have thousands of followers and what I’m doing is immensely important to me
Agreed but to be clear I am not threatening. My love affair with WordPress.com came to an end and I chose to depart graciously. I already gone though I still answer support questions like I have done in the past, I am no longer blogging. When my upgrades run out I will close both sites and focus solely on my new one.
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I think we should be stressing that we should be allowed the option. That would put an end to all this controversy. In a nano-second.
Agreed, and I think many of us have made the same point. I’d be quite happy if they’d simply give us the option to continue to access the old tools.
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Yes it is and we either choose to suffer or we choose to put an end to our suffering. One either acts to improve their situation or they do not act and continue to vent day in and day out and create yet more venting threads. It is that simple. I acted and I am creating my own happiness.
True, but on the other hand, if we are paying WP for additional blog services such as custom themes and no-ads, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect support for our blogs in forms that are useful and functional to us. Or to be consulted about whether we want or need changes to that support.
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I also have no intention of moving to another blogging platform. Since last March I have been disappointed with WP; since May I have published much less and will continue to post much less.
I still can access the old “classic” versions of the dashboard and Stats’ pages, and continue to use the “classic” editor, if or when those disappear I may also disappear.
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I am extremely disappointed with the updated Stats page. My husband always teased me about spending way too much time checking my stats. The new Stats page is so utterly unhelpful that I no longer like to check my stats. :( Who wants to see NOTHING PUBLISHED as the first line beneath their stats? I can only see 10 days and not the visits as compared to the views. Everything is double-spaced, so I have to scroll down SIX times to take in each feature on my MacBook. I can’t view the map of visitors with the names of countries on the same page! I found the original Stats far superior – like Coke Classic. I’d PAY to have the original stats page back, that’s how much I dislike it.
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I think it is vital that we do not create the impression that the changes are acceptable by using them. Therefore I have bookmarked the pages I want and open each in a new tab. This is actually more convenient than the old method. The notification archive can be opened, in a new tab, whenever the icon lights up. It is here:-
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@ designsimply
I agree with much diaryofdennis’ statements.
Here’ what I liked better in the Classic:
In Daily stats Classic, I got to see a whole month of daily stats, with views and visitors both IN THE GRAPH (visual), and in writing. Now just 8 days of views, with # of visitors as a number only. That’s a big step backwards. Where did the Classic Mode go, btw? DId it get axed the other day??? It should even be “classic mode”, just make two designs, with a button at the top “switch to mobile friendly” or “switch to large screen friendly”, something like that.
What I do like is that I can now see all countries, not just the top visitors. What I wish would be improved is that the map shows ALL up front, and that I can just click back and forth in time right there, without having to go back to the top and click on the previous day there, scroll all the way back down…
In any case, hope the design will evolve to suit both mobile and desktop users. ‘Cause the changes were, for the most part, not an improvement, imo.
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I strongly agree with “alwaysjan” above!!!
Here’s my own observation: I want the former “stats page” returned to its rightful place.
The new “enhanced stats page” is NOT “enhanced” at all: (1) the blogger has to scroll down a lengthy page to see individual elements, if, indeed, he can spot them; (2) only one visiting country shows up clearly on the map; the others are very vaguely reflected.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old stats page that I can recall. I WANT IT BACK!!!!
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