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Free Plugin by ice00 v1.4.5

NewStatPress

NewStatPress (Statpress plugin fork) is a real-time plugin to manage the visits' statistics about your blog (without external web analytics).

NewStatPress

The facts

Rating
4.7★ from 84
Active installs
8k+
Price
Free
Last updated
7 Jul 2026
Added
Mar 2011
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
WP 6.9.7
Downloads
946,589

Our analysis

AI-assisted

NewStatPress is a WordPress plugin designed for managing and collecting statistics about blog visits. It gathers data on visitors, search keywords, feeds, and browsers, providing insights into user behaviour on your site. Once activated, it starts collecting statistics immediately, which can be viewed in the Dashboard menu.

The plugin includes a sidebar widget and offers features such as IP banning and database table maintenance. It also supports an External API for sharing collected data with other platforms, enhancing its functionality for users with more complex needs.

Best for: This plugin is suitable for bloggers and website owners who want to track visitor statistics and behaviour.

What it does well

  • Collects detailed statistics about visitors and their behaviour
  • Includes a widget for easy access to statistics
  • Supports IP banning to manage unwanted visitors
  • Can automatically delete older records to maintain database performance
  • Offers an External API for data sharing with other platforms

Where it falls short

  • Limited information on specific features and commands
  • Requires enabling the External API for full functionality

Verdict

NewStatPress provides a comprehensive set of tools for monitoring blog traffic and user engagement, making it a useful option for those interested in analytics.

From the developer

ice00's own description of NewStatPress, lightly tidied.

NewStatPress is a new version of StatPress that was the first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits.

It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.

Once the plugin NewStatPress has been activated it immediately starts to collect statistics information.
Using NewStatPress you could spy your visitors while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories.
In the Dashboard menu you will find the NewStatPress page where you could look up the statistics (overview or detailed).
NewStatPress also includes a widget one can possibly add to a sidebar (or easy PHP code if you can’t use widgets!).

With the new ajax/javascript usage for variables in widget, the plugin is faster for a user being visit your site even with 1GB or more of database to use! (requires the External API be enabled in NewStatPress>Options>API)

IMPORTANT: all previous versions from 1.0.4 are subject to XSS and SQL injection from an old Statpress routine. You have to use at least version 1.0.6 to avoid security issue.
PLEASE UPDATE always to the latest version available.

Support

Check at http://newstatpress.altervista.org

What’s new?

Simple adding index to database and changes some data fields for better database storing (from here http://www.poundbangwhack.com/2010/07/03/improve-the-performance-of-the-wordpress-plugin-statpress-and-your-blog/ where some modification comes from)

Ban IP

You could ban IP list from stats editing def/banips.dat file.

DB Table maintenance

NewStatPress can automatically delete older records to allow the insertion of newer records when limited space is present.
This features is left as original StatPress but it will be replaced by the history data instead.

External API

External API are a way to gives the collected informations as a web service using a POST call.
With it you can use (for example) your collected data of WordPress inside a Drupal site.
The API must be enables by check a flag into the option (by default is disabled) and a private KEY must be entered (you can generate a random one).
This KEY is for authenticate the called as a valid allowed client.
Even if the API is for external usage, it will be used internally for speed up page generation using AJAX, so at some point you will need to activate it to continue to see overview and Details pages.

Actually those are the available commands:

Read the full description on the official page →

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