Wondering about visitor counters

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  bettieblogger · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 10:26 pm

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  I am wondering if there is a way to put a visitor counter on my blog page .. I use wordpress.com not org so I am unable to “upload” one of my own as there is not option for that …

  any suggestions would be great!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 10:42 pm

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  Sure, there are plenty. You can use the Stats widget, you can use Sitemeter or Statcounter (HTML-only versions) in a text widget, or you can use Whos.among.us, which I use to show how many people are on the blog at any given moment.

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  sophiebartesch · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 11:47 pm

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  use a theme that already has one on it! its so much easyer because i found that alot of the widget ones dont work! The freshly theme definately has one already because thats what i use! hope that helps

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 10, 2009 at 11:50 pm

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  To my knowledge, none of the themes have visitor counter displays built in. I use Freshy on one of my blogs: http://raincoastermedia.com/ and it doesn’t show one there.

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  irisofthewayfarer · Member · Apr 13, 2009 at 3:10 am

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  I use “connection” as my theme and I am not sure if that’s part of it, but in my admin page, there a ‘stats’ feature which shows me how many visitors I have on any given day.
  Would that be helpful to you?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 13, 2009 at 3:21 am

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  sophiebartesch
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  irisofthewayfarer

  All WordPress.com blogs have already have stats:

  http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php

  The OP may have been looking for something that would display in a sidebar for readers to see who is online, or where they are from, or whatever…
  Check out Raincoaster’s post #2 above on this thread.