Blobfolio

Your LAMP versions are A-OK; in fact I primarily developed this plugin on an Ubuntu server! Haha.

I have a few more questions, if you don’t mind:

1. Does the settings page correctly display your IP address in the notes underneath the exempt field (e.g. …you might consider adding your IP address (192.0.0.1)…)?
2. If you have FTP access, please create a new PHP file with the following code (replacing 50.193.147.215 with your own IP address):
   <?php echo var_dump(filter_var('50.193.147.215', FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_NO_PRIV_RANGE | FILTER_FLAG_NO_RES_RANGE)); ?>
   Upload it to your server, view it in your browser. Please report back what it shows (if anything). If it shows you your IP, then the server believes your IP is valid; if false, for some reason the server does not believe it is valid (in which case, would you please post your IP?); if it shows nothing or some other error, then filter_var() isn’t running correctly.
3. Again assuming you have FTP access, would you please create a file with the following code, upload it, and give me a link?
   <?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
4. Did the ‘meow_log’ MySQL table get created? Does it have any data?

Thank you so much for your effort and patience! I’m curious to see what could be going on here, and excited to make the plugin better!

I pushed the update through a bit early. Thanks again for your feedback and let me know if you’d like to see anything else.

I just pushed through an update with some bug fixes which might fix your problem (or at least make it clear). The two main things:

1. This plugin is not compatible with WPMU, but would have been installable anyway. It now explicitly checks for multisite, and if enabled, deactivates itself to prevent trouble.
2. This plugin was grabbing IP information from a function that might not have worked with IIS environments. It now does things differently and so should be more compatible.

If an update doesn’t resolve things for you, then I’d still be curious to know the version info I previously asked about. The plugin requires PHP >= 5.2, WP >= 3.4, MySQL >= 5.0. Additionally it won’t work if your server is behind a proxy or made of cheese. ??

Hmmm… can you provide me a few details about your set up:

1. Are you running “multisite” WordPress?
2. What version of PHP is running on your server?
3. If you have access to Apache error logs, are there any warnings or errors triggered by the plugin?
4. What version of WordPress are you running?
5. And what version of MySQL?

Thank you for your feedback!

The next release, due out the 15th, has:
– a lower data retention minimum (10 days)
– a button to manually clear all data
– and a few other goodies, like an option to disable the theme/plugin file editor.

Let me know if you’d like to see anything else from the plug-in!

The 30-day minimum was implemented because of the new statistics page (the stats looked really sad with only a few days’ history). I tried to balance this with a new option to choose whether or not User Agent strings are logged; disabling that will make for much smaller records.

But that said, do you feel a lower minimum would still be useful? Maybe split the difference at 10 or 15 days?

A CLEAR DATA option is definitely a good idea and one that is slated for a future release!

Thank you for your feedback!

…And clarified in the FAQ! Thanks again for bringing this matter to my attention!

I’m sorry, this plugin was only made with single-site WordPress installations in mind. Thank you for asking, though! I’ll add a note to the FAQ to clarify.