Wordpress feature hacking

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:18:18 +0000

I’m using Koko analytics on my site to generally see if it’s getting traffic (it’s not :D). One thing I wanted to add was a site counter as a throwback to my original website which tracked such things. The data is clearly there since Koko can display the visitors over time:

Okay, so let’s get started. Luckily, after cloning the repo, I found an existing file which generates a shortcode. I started there & copy/paste/changed the filename. I didn’t know how to get the data I wanted, but I just wanted the file to show up. I ended up searching for Shortcode_Most_Viewed_Posts to see how it gets used, and I found the following snippet:

Code on sugar, spice, &terminal? nice

Wordpress feature hacking