API Key for stats. It won’t accept the key

  • I had been previously been using one API key for multiple self-hosted blogs. But for some unknown reason the stats plugin stopped working on one of them, so I tried to create a new WP user and add that API key, but it’s still not taking it. It sends me in an endless loop:

    1: Enter API key.
    2a: The API key “******” belongs to the WordPress.com account of “SOMEUSERNAME”. If this is not your account, please re-enter your API key.
    2b: Add new blog to my account

    2a sends me back to 1.
    2b gives an error:

    Error from last API Key attempt:

    Missing API Key

    Which prompts to enter API key… back to 1.

    What is the recommended way to use API keys? Can you use one key across multiple sites? Or should you get 1 key per site, and therefore create multiple WP.com users (one per blog)?

    Thanks for your help.

    P.S. I’ve tried deactivating and reactivating the stats plugin several times now.

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  • … and it just broke on yet another blog. 1.3.4 wouldn’t show a graph, and 1.3.5 takes me round and round in the Missing API Key loop.

    Come on, Automattic, fix this damn thing.

    I fall into the same loop! Over and over and over again! Wish there was a fix for this!

    There’s a workaround in this thread.

    I have a workaround right here.

    First you have to enter your API Key.
    You’ll get an error message, as you know.
    But this time you have an alternative choice: a button to press, stating that your site is new for the Stats system.
    You have to press this button. Surprisingly, you’ll recover all your old statistics.
    It worked for me. I’ve got a two-monts gap in the statistics, but I recovered the functionality of a nice stats plugin.

    Carlos Reynoso, Anthropologist
    https://carlosreynoso.com.ar

    First you have to enter your API Key.
    You’ll get an error message, as you know.
    But this time you have an alternative choice: a button to press, stating that your site is new for the Stats system.
    You have to press this button. Surprisingly, you’ll recover all your old statistics.
    It worked for me. I’ve got a two-monts gap in the statistics, but I recovered the functionality of a nice stats plugin.

    Thanks, that worked! ??

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