mish-mash at the top of my web page

I must be the only one with this problem, so I am probably doing something silly.

Still, when I load this plug-in, I get the following message from WP:

“The plugin generated 834 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.”

And the top of my web-page has the following text:

“Notice: add_option was called with an argument that is deprecated since version 2.3 with no alternative available. in /hermes/bosnaweb03a/b2751/XXX/public_html/XXX.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3008”

Both of these disappear when I disable the plug-in.

May I suggest installing code manually as per these steps:

1. Login to WordPress
2. Click Appearance in the left hand menu
3. Select “Editor”
4. In the list on the right hand side select “Footer (footer.php)”
5. In the text box to the left paste your StatCounter code just before
</body></html>
6. Click the “Update File” button

The StatCounter code should now be active in your current theme. Please note that if you switch themes you’ll have to re-add the code to this file.

May I suggest installing code manually as per these steps:

1. Login to WordPress
2. Click Appearance in the left hand menu
3. Select “Editor”
4. In the list on the right hand side select “Footer (footer.php)”
5. In the text box to the left paste your StatCounter code just before
closing body tag.
6. Click the “Update File” button

The StatCounter code should now be active in your current theme. Please note that if you switch themes you’ll have to re-add the code to this file.

Thanks for your reply! I’m using Responsive 1.9.5.3 theme and it does not have an “editor” option under “appearance”. But Statcounter used to work very well with this theme…

Should I add this to my footer.php via FTP? And by StatCounter code are your referring to my “project ID” or “security code”?

Yes, adding to footer.php is perfect and entire code need to be pasted.

To re-generate your code:-

1. Log into your account

2. Click the small “wrench” icon beside your project name – this brings you to the “Installation and Configuration” page

3. Click “Reinstall Code” from left hand side of page to retrieve your code.

Thanks

Yes, adding to footer.php is perfect and entire code need to be pasted.

To re-generate your code:-

1. Log into your account

2. Click the small “wrench” icon beside your project name – this brings you to the “Installation and Configuration” page

3. Click “Reinstall Code” from left hand side of page to retrieve your code.

Thanks

Hi,

Yes, adding our code to footer.php is perfect and you need to paste our entire code as it is.

To re-generate your code:-

1. Log into your account

2. Click the small “wrench” icon beside your project name – this brings you to the “Installation and Configuration” page

3. Click “Reinstall Code” from left hand side of page to retrieve your code.

Thanks

Hi,

Yes, adding our code to footer.php is perfect and you need to paste our entire code as it is.

To re-generate your code:-

1. Log into your account

2. Click the small “wrench” icon beside your project name – this brings you to the “Installation and Configuration” page

3. Click “Reinstall Code” from left hand side of page to retrieve your code.

Thanks

Hmm. I hate being such a pain. In my WP version 3.8.1 I don’t see a “wrench” anyplace after I have logged into my account, other than the wrench for “tools”, which only includes import and export tools. I’m sorry… i tried googling the “Installation and Configuration” page for WP, but no luck! Many thanks.

Hi again!

Can you please click on Support tab at top after logging in your statcounter account and refer this post ?

I can then quickly install code on your behalf. Via our support channels, it would be much quicker.

Thanks

OK! I’ve done that. Many thanks!!

Whoops. Now I understand that in your instructions from yesterday you were advising me to log into my StatCounter account (not my WP account) to click the wrench and resinstall code. But I have now done that and my problems persist…

I will leave my site up with the “mish mash” words on the top of it today so you can see what I am talking about.

Thanks again.

Hurrah! Many thank Rory! This resolved the issue:

change define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
to
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, false);
In the wp-config.php file.