How to display hit counter in footer

Hi,

please take a look at our knowledge base:

https://slimstat.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000684589-retrieving-and-outputting-data-from-the-database-in-php

Best,
Camu

Camu,
Thanks for the link. I looked at that link you supplied and at
https://slimstat.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000684596-database-api-methods

…But was not able to get it to work properly. I see that the documentation says that the syntax for the “init()” and “count_records()” functions is similar to syntax for shortcodes but looking at the shortcode documentation I don’t see how to do the translation/transition from one to the other.

Basically all I want to do is retrieve the count of all unique IP visitors from the start of time.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Okay, this is what you need:

include_once( WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/wp-slimstat/admin/view/wp-slimstat-db.php' );
 wp_slimstat_db::init();
echo wp_slimstat_db::count_records( 'ip', '', false );

Let me know if it works.

Camu

Yes it works!

Suggestion: I’d suggest you keep working on improving the documentation.

Thank you. I gave you a recommended rating and bought one of your addons!

Terrific!

Camu

So do you mean to tell me that with all these 100,000+ users of Slimstat, no one has developed a plugin to display a “Hit Counter” in the footer of a wordpress blog – using the count from Slimstat?

Well, probably most people use our shortcode feature, and place it in a text widget.