Last week I raved about at WordPress stats plugin called FireStats. As part of my post, I noted that there was a minor presentation problem in the admin interface which turned out to be an incompatibility between FireStats and the Sociable plugin. Omry Yadan, the creator FireStats, has commented on that post to report that the problem has been fixed.

Omry has made some changes to the Sociable plugin and released sociable-1.2-firestats-safe.zip as part of ticket #51 on the FireStats site. He has also sent the updated code to the author of Sociable, Peter Harkins.

Now that’s a great story about open source!

About a month ago, Anders Holte Nielsen announced that he has discontinued development of his popular Counterize WordPress plugin, a plugin that summarizes and presents statistical information about a WordPress blog. Fortunately, he offered a solid alternative, the relatively young FireStats plugin by Omry Yadan.

I installed FireStats on two of my WordPress sites today. The installation was typically easy and the interface is slick with a collection of important statistical information. Even so, one of my FireStats installations came up with nice tabbed navigation interface, the other did not. I posted a comment on the FireStats Blog to report the problem. Omry was right on top of the post - he replied within fifteen minutes. The issue appears to be with the way the Sociable plugin applies javascript to the WordPress administrative interface, and Omry is tracking the problem as issue 51 in his ticket system.

If Omry can add a graphs tab that provides graphical representations of hits and visits by hour, day of week, day of month and month of year (current, average and running totals for these graphs would also be great) I would have no reason to operate any other statistical plugins. For icing on the cake, I would love it if FireStats had full featured statistical gathering for the PodPress plugin since PodPress has some unresolved bugs and development efforts seem to be stagnating.