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Stats Captain (OG)

Tier 2 traffic and podcast analytics — dashboards in the admin, widgets on any page via shortcode.

What It Does

Stats Captain OG is the analytics module for server-tier (Tier 2) sites. It tracks visits, tourists, referrers, and podcast plays, then presents the data two ways: a full admin dashboard with drilldowns, and embeddable widgets for public pages via the

luminal.group
Uniques:5,297
MP3 D/Ls:258
Bandwidth:38.9 GB
Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
shortcode. It replaces the retired original StatsCaptain — don’t install the old one.

Getting Started

  1. Open Stats Captain OG from the admin menu.
  2. Review the scoreboard for visits, unique tourists, top referrers, and podcast metrics.
  3. Drill into the log viewer for per-request detail when you need it.
  4. To publish a scoreboard on a public page, drop
    luminal.group
    Uniques:5,297
    MP3 D/Ls:258
    Bandwidth:38.9 GB
    Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
     into the page content.
  5. Tune the widget with options (see below).

Admin Dashboard

The dashboard shows rolling totals, top pages, top referrers, and the podcast scoreboard (episode plays, unique listeners). A built-in log viewer exposes individual hits if you need to audit traffic or chase down a bot.

Public Widgets via Shortcode

Use

luminal.group
Uniques:5,297
MP3 D/Ls:258
Bandwidth:38.9 GB
Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
to embed a stats widget on any page. Variants:

  • luminal.group
    Uniques:5,297
    MP3 D/Ls:258
    Bandwidth:38.9 GB
    Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
     — dark theme
  • luminal.group
    Uniques:5,297
    MP3 D/Ls:258
    Bandwidth:38.9 GB
    Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
     — light theme
  • luminal.group
    Uniques:5,297
    MP3 D/Ls:258
    Bandwidth:38.9 GB
    Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
     — compact
  • luminal.group
    Uniques:14.2K
    MP3 D/Ls:825
    Bandwidth:123.7 GB
    Most Recent 30 Days  ·  just now
     or period="today" — time range
  • luminal.group
    Uniques:5,297
    MP3 D/Ls:258
    Bandwidth:38.9 GB
    Most Recent 7 Days  ·  just now
     — include podcast scoreboard

Combine them:

luminal.group
Uniques:14.2K
MP3 D/Ls:825
Bandwidth:123.7 GB
Most Recent 30 Days  ·  just now
.

What Replaced What

The original StatsCaptain module is retired — never re-install it. StatsCaptainOG is the full, current stats stack for Tier 2 sites. Separately, affiliate sites use AmazonAffiliateDashboard with hub-side AmazonCollector (the AudienceBuilder pattern). Don’t mix stacks.

Gotchas / Tips

  • Never reference site-root/vstats/ — those folders are rogue legacy cruft. The real stats system lives in admin/modules/StatsCaptainOG/.
  • Tier 2 sites only. Pinnacle and base sites don’t need this — they use different tools.
  • If widget counts look wrong, check the dashboard first — widgets pull from the same underlying log.
  • Don’t hand-edit log files; use the log viewer to filter and the admin actions to manage them.
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