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Danny van Kooten
@dvk@toot.re
mastodon 4.7.3Founder of a tiny bootstrapped software company.
Currently: Koko Analytics, Mailchimp for WordPress, Boxzilla
Formerly: Fathom Analytics, HTML Forms
Also a father, husband, climber, cyclist, runner, pizza chef, chess player, reader of books, weight lifter, investor.
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Joined September 14, 2023
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Koko Analytics 2.3.4 just went out 🎉
A small update focused on reliability and polish: squashed an issue with importing from Plausible and Jetpack Stats, cleaner public dashboard behavior and a few UX improvements.
Koko Analytics Pro just got cheaper across the board.
You now only pay EUR 169 to use it on an unlimited amount of sites.
All existing customers have been updated to the lower price. There is nothing you need to do for the change to take effect. 💝
RE: @JosKleverWebSupport@toot.re
This was always my ultimate goal with Koko Analytics (and Fathom before):
To get people who didn't really need it anyway (or would benefit from something simpler) off of Google Analytics.
So cool to see it in effect. 🙏
New day, new Koko Analytics release. Version 2.3.5 just went out. 🎉
- the aggregation process no longer runs while database migrations are pending or busy
- pruning large datasets is now done in 10K chunks
- the alloptions cache is no longer invalidated on every aggregation run
Traveling to Spain tomorrow for a week of leisure and cycling up mountains with the fam.
Prepping the e-reader. I read a ton of non-fiction already, but want to try some fiction for a change.
I absolutely love historical fiction, but down for whatever. Any recommendations?
One of my sites did not auto-update to WP 7.0.2.
Got an email notification this morning that my administrator password was changed.
Oof. This is new to me. How do I properly clean-up? Already deleted the 4 new admin users, changed passwords, rotatd secrets, verified checksums.
After a few years of price hikes and with a yearly renewal coming up, I migrated our email support inboxes from Helpscout to Freescout.
It will save us an easy $90 per month and make me less hesitant about temporarily adding users.
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In typical Danny fashion I somehow messed up the link to my site on the attendees page. Don't see any way for me to change it. 🤦♂️
https://europe.wordcamp.org/2026/community/attendees/
RE: @mikehindleuk@mastodon.social
What a way to start the day. Thank you @mikehindleuk@mastodon.social for putting this out there. 🙏
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@jmslbam@toot.re @JosKleverWebSupport@toot.re Thx guys, cool to see DirectAdmin is still going strong! At least has the benefit of a proven track record vs. all these new kids on the block.
What is everyone using to help manage their servers?
Specifically looking for something that eases creating (native) isolated users & PHP-FPM pools.
cPanel? Cloudpanel? Hestia CP? Enhance? So many options. Very new to this space.
> He admitted he wasn’t proud of http://WordPress.org but wanted to be, and said his goal was “something like http://posthog.com” and “not http://drupal.com or http://launch.joomla.org.”
So it seems PostHog redesigned their website after I last checked. Oof.
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@JosKleverWebSupport@toot.re A lot of them are due to database migrations timing out. They can always fix it by first reducing the size of their dataset, ie configuring the plugin to only keep the last 1-3 years.
Maybe I should just write that out in an article somewhere and ask for a fee if they want me to perform the database migration in a less constrained environment.
Just out: Koko Analytics Pro version 2.3.1 🎂
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@mikehindleuk@mastodon.social TwentyTwentyFive team! First time ever using a block based theme for me, was pleasantly surprised.
After a couple of days of casually reviewing several block based themes, I've decided on Rockbase for a site I'm currently moving back on to WordPress.
It's looking really slick, maxed out WCV score and has just the right amount of patterns.
Did anyone experience a ~75% drop in recorded pageviews between Koko Analytics version 2.2 and 2.3?
I'm talking to one user for which visitors remained the same but pageviews dropped a TON.
While we already ruled out most of the changes between the two versions, I'd like to hear from other users so that I can confidently say "no one else seems to be experiencing this".
NOTE: A tiny drop (0-5%) is to be expected because we implemented improved checks for automated browsing.
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@samebchase is it the one by RF Kuang?
Never heard of it before, but that does sound like an epic story. And apparently a classic too?! 500K reviews on Goodreads, wow.
📬 Mailchimp for WordPress 4.12.2 is out!
- Campaign Archive block to showcase your past email campaigns
- Better WooCommerce Checkout Block support
- Mailchimp Site Tracking Pixel support
Update is now available on WordPress.org or from GitHub.
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@ramon 99.7? You can toggle the "view full distributon" to find any P value you want.
P99 seems to be PHP 5.6 right now.
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@jmslbam@toot.re Yeah, noticed that too. But zero issues with the theme so far though. Definitely not as visible or active as Mike is with Ollie.
I did test Ollie and really liked it, but Rockbase seemed easier for me to fill in the gaps and add our own content to. I kept getting stuck with Ollie trying to replace placeholders.
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Added a settings page so that I can easily switch between winter mode (minimal riding, just staying healthy with 2.5 hours of elevated heart rate per week) and summer mode (more riding).
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Got rid of the 7-day rolling window in favor of a fixed (calendar) week where you state your availability in advance.
Any missed rides simply means the rest of that week will be accounted upwards.
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@gvenk@mastodon.xyz Me too! An open-source CLI tool would be great. Do you know if there's anything like that?
I'm using a bash script now, but it really only does the initial set-up.
Providing support to non-paying users of Koko Analytics due to exotic set-ups (mostly multilingual) or tight database resources combined with large datasets is eating up a lot of my time.
Unsure how to best handle it, but it's weighing on me.
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@ramonfincken@mastodon.social Meh. Too much noise and false positives. It does not tokenize code into an AST so it does not pick up on a lot of basic patterns.
Does anyone even use the Plugin Check tool, unless forced to?
https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check
I certainly like the idea but with this many false positives, it does not exactly spark joy to use it.
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@Jeffro@wptoots.social Indeed. And it is already actively being exploited at scale. One of my sites got hacked because of it. No harm done fortunately, but still a weird experience.
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@manualdousuario@mastodon.social Thx Rodrigo. James clarified that just now over email as well. Happy to hear it's still mostly the same spirit behind Jelly - I liked what I saw in my testing today.
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@carstingaxion@dewp.space https://github.com/WordPress/plugin-check-action
I'd like to do this, but after establishing a baseline. Like what PhpStan allows. 😅
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@simon@dewp.space Score, that absolutely worked. Totally missed that link. Was editing profile via the admin bar, but that just took me to WordPress.org. 😅
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The total size will also show in the debug info on the help settings page. This should help while dealing with support requests from users stuck on an older database version.
@goodenough Hey team, did you sell Jelly or what happened? I have been meaning to try it out for months.
Just did, but was taken aback to see it is no longer part of Good Enough.