Actually – in 6-7 years this is the first request for such a beast!

Mostly the data is available using SQL queries and at the end of the day this is what SQL is for – interrogating the database and extracting the data you want. Likewise, most decent SQL tools can pipe data into XML, CSV and probably other formats as well.

Most hosting comes with access to phpMyAdmin which will serve to perform all of these tasks although there are better tools available and there are even some, I believe, SQL Query plugins for WordPress that might be good enough to produce the sort of data you want.

But – we will also talk this over to see if we would want to take on the task of creating a one-off tool for this sort of querying.

Thanks for the reply and apologies for the ignorance. I am not a developer. Just a layperson handling most of my site stuff. As such, SQL queries are like a foreign language to me! I will look into it though, as I do have access to PHPMyAdmin, so thank you.

its more than just queries really…  would be best as a plugin for setting some options and starting to collect the needed information that is not currently being collected (ie wp does NOT record the number of logins for a user)…

We will be discussing if we want to take on this premium custom plugin development.  I think its fair to say, yes we do, just have to look at timing and availability.  I will be gone for a week starting sunday and sooner or later WP is going to finally release 3.6 and getting our 5.3 out will take priority.  so may take us a week or so to get back with  you… will try to keep you appraised…

No problem and many thanks for looking into this. I have to say I am really impressed by your level of customer service…it is refreshing in the WP community where I feel customers are mostly left to fend for themselves…

We are also slowing doen over the summer and moving offices which means we wouldn’t be able to follow this on top of regular activities before September really.

We are however, quite keen to see if there is a possibility to develop this type of plugin so please keep us posted and if you need guinea pigs we are available. We will be getting a new intern starting after the summer so I can dedicate some resources to this.

Also, as suggested, I am including here the top queries we would be interested in gathering info from…

– how many new members in a given time span (i.e. from 1st July to 7th July)

– how many total posts in a given time span

– how many total newbie posts within 21 days/3 months/6 months

– average number of newbie posts within 21 days/3 months/6 months

– average number of posts for all members within 21 days/3 months/6 months

All noted. Steve (Mr Papa) is away this week but we are discussing this and will do so more when he returns.

Great  Looking forward to hearing more…