Visits to my own blog are now counted in my stats after a WordPress Announcement
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There was a recent WordPress Announcement entitled (I’m paraphrasing here) “You are this close to browsing your own blog under your own domain name. Click here…”
I thought an announcement would just take me to a page that explained this new feature.
However, it turned a setting on or off. I don’t know which one or where to find it.
When I am logged into my blog in Firefox, I have one tab open to view the dashboard, and another tab to view my blog. I do this when I’m making a lot of changes. Normally, when I view my blog, it shows the typical WP menus “My Account”, “My Blog”, “Blog Info”, and “Subscribe”.
However, after I clicked the announcement, when I click to the tab to view my blog, the WP menus are gone, and my blog appears as if I was not logged in. I noticed this because my site stats incremented. Also, I have a “Subscribe to this Blog” widget which normally says You are subscribed to this blog (manage). Now, it gives me the entry field to type my email address in.
Bottom line, this WP announcement changed a setting so that I’m logged out of my blog on one Firefox tab, and my own site visits are now added to my stats. I definitely don’t want this.
Help! How to undo this feature? Where is this setting?
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The announcement was to set your mapped domain, so your blog is now at http://northvanrailrant.com/ instead of http://northvanrailrant.wordpress.com/
Unfortunately, this can sometimes (though very rarely) cause a bit of a cookie crisis in Firefox.
Try clearing your cookies and cache: http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clear-your-cache-and-cookies
Your visits are being counted because technically you’re no longer logged in. Clearing your cache and cookies, then logging in again, will resolve the situation.
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Thanks for the info. But clearing the cache and the cookies didn’t resolve the problem.
How can this setting be undone? Where is this setting located?
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Do it this way: First, log out. Then clear your cache and cookies. Then restart the computer and sign in. Does it still happen? It’ll count ONE hit because you have to sign in, but after that it shouldn’t count them.
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We tried the suggestion above. Thanks. But it didn’t work. There is definitely a cookie monster at work here.
How can this setting be undone? Where is this setting located?
Why does a WordPress announcement change a setting? Shouldn’t it just link to a page that tells one how to change a setting as opposed to actually changing the setting?
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We want to turn this setting off.
* Where is this setting located?
* How can this setting be undone? -
Why does a WordPress announcement change a setting? Shouldn’t it just link to a page that tells one how to change a setting as opposed to actually changing the setting?
I too wish to hear an answer to this question. I have bookmarked this thread so when Staff answers I will notice it.
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I just took a look through your stats and don’t see anything out of the ordinary.
I do see 3 visits from “WordPress Dashboard,” but these could be from anyone’s Dashboard (maybe you commented on their blog) or even their Global Dashboard (maybe they are keeping track of their comments or found you in one of the “top” or “Fastest growing” listings).
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We have tested this several times. This feature counts visits to our own blog when logged into Firefox, viewing stats in one tab, and viewing the blog in another tab. When viewing the blog, it looks as if the admin is not logged in. Each click is counted in the stats. Clearing the cache and the cookies does not work.
We want to turn this setting off.
* Where is this setting located?
* How can this setting be undone?
* Clicking on the WordPress announcement turned a setting on that we don’t want. How do we turn it off? -
Where is this setting located? How can this setting be undone?
There is no setting, it’s designed to ignore logged-in visitors.
Clicking on the WordPress announcement turned a setting on that we don’t want. How do we turn it off?
Clicking on the announcement allowed you to enable northvanrailrant.com as your primary domain, nothing more.
I wonder if Firefox is having an issue with thinking that northvanrailrant.com represents a third-party cookie, as it also happens on theme previews with mapped domains.
I believe they’re clearing that issue up in FF 4. For now, please try enabling third-party cookies in FF: http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61416
After changing this setting, you’ll probably need to do the old cookie dance again: http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clear-your-cache-and-cookies
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