Codersly Visitor Tracker

Codersly Visitor Tracker is a privacy-aware WordPress Visitor Tracking Plugin that helps site owners understand how visitors, pages, referrers, devices, and bots interact with their website from inside the WordPress admin area. The plugin records visitor activity in a dedicated custom database table and displays useful visitor analytics through a dashboard and searchable visitor list. You can review page views, landing pages, current pages, referrers, browser information, visit times, and visitor type without sending visitor analytics data to Codersly. Codersly Visitor Tracker is built for WordPress site owners, bloggers, developers, agencies, and small businesses who need lightweight visitor tracking, local visitor logs, bot detection, referrer tracking, and basic traffic insights directly in WordPress. The plugin is free and fully functional. All included features are available immediately after activation. Optional add-on information screens may be shown only to describe features available in a separate Pro add-on; those screens do not contain disabled controls, license checks, or Pro feature code. Why use this WordPress Visitor Tracking Plugin?

• Track visitor activity inside WordPress without relying on a hosted analytics dashboard.
• See useful visitor logs, including referrers, landing pages, current pages, browser name, and visit time.
• Understand human visitors, suspected bots, verified bots, and unknown traffic.
• Keep visitor records stored locally in your own WordPress database.
• Use lightweight page-view beacons designed for simple WordPress traffic tracking.
• Exclude selected logged-in user roles from tracking.
• Enable optional approximate location lookup only when your site policy allows it.

Main features

• WordPress visitor tracking dashboard with visitor counters
• Visitor list with filtering and pagination
• Human, suspected bot, verified bot, and unknown visitor classification
• Raw referrer, referrer host, referrer type, landing page, current page, browser name, and visit time recording
• First-touch referrer and landing-page recording using lightweight browser storage
• Tracking settings, privacy settings, approximate location lookup settings, and role exclusions
• Local database storage for recorded visitor activity
• Lightweight beacon fallback for quick browser visits

What can you track? Codersly Visitor Tracker can record key visitor analytics data such as page path, landing page, current page, referrer, referrer host, browser name, user agent, IP address, visit time, and bot-detection fields. If approximate location lookup is enabled by the site administrator, the plugin may also store approximate location fields returned by the configured GeoIP provider. Privacy-focused local analytics This WordPress visitor tracking plugin stores visitor data locally in your WordPress database. It does not send visitor analytics data to Codersly. Approximate location lookup is disabled by default and only runs when the site administrator enables it.

1.0.6

• Improved human/bot classification so a JavaScript beacon alone is no longer treated as enough proof of a human visit.
• Added browser-like search infrastructure IP detection for Google-style renderer/proxy traffic that can execute JavaScript.
• Improved high-rate page scan detection even when a referrer is present.
• Added rapid pagination crawl detection for patterns such as /blog/page/4/, /blog/page/5/, and /blog/page/6/.
• Kept existing free/Pro informational placeholder screens and Pro add-on compatibility unchanged.

1.0.5

• Adjusted admin tabs to a slightly taller compact height while leaving filter controls unchanged.
• Fixed the Visitors Type column styling so Suspected Bot and Verified Bot badges display with a red background for clearer bot identification.
• Restored slim admin navigation tabs and kept Visitors filter controls compact and aligned in one row on wider screens.
• Improved Visitors referrer display by showing the first-touch/session referrer when the raw browser referrer is unavailable.
• Added missing tracking helper methods to prevent visitor beacon and server-side tracking fatal errors.
• Added the missing GDPR include placeholder for cleaner plugin loading.

1.0.4

• Improved readme description for clearer WordPress visitor tracking, privacy, referrer, page, and bot-detection information.
• Fixed Pro add-on compatibility so free informational placeholders and Get Pro boxes do not render when an active Pro license is present.
• Added Pro-active checks to hide free Pro badges in shared admin tabs and submenu labels.

1.0.3

• Added SEO-style informational add-on screens for separately available Pro features, without disabled controls, license checks, or Pro feature implementation code.
• Improved admin tab compactness and visitor filter field spacing/alignment.
• Removed unused advanced stats REST route from the WordPress.org package.
• Removed unused attribution-specific stored fields from the free package schema and insert logic.
• Kept Dashboard, Visitors, and Settings as the complete included free admin screens.
• Kept boolean settings sanitized with rest_sanitize_boolean.
• Kept human/bot classification improvements and hardened visitor IP handling.

1.0.2

• Updated package version to 1.0.2 for the WordPress.org review upload.
• Removed unregistered bot/referrer report screen code from the free package.
• Updated boolean setting sanitization to use rest_sanitize_boolean.
• Improved input sanitization, nonce validation, escaping, and admin UI spacing.
• Improved human/bot classification for JS-capable scanners and browser automation.
• Hardened visitor IP detection by avoiding untrusted forwarded headers unless the immediate proxy is trusted.
• Kept Direct/Unknown referrers honest when browsers or scanners send no referrer instead of guessing a source.

1.0.1

• Improved input sanitization, nonce validation, escaping, and admin UI spacing.

1.0.0

• Initial release.
• Added lightweight visitor tracking dashboard, Visitors, and Settings.
• Added human/bot/unknown visitor classification fields.
• Added raw referrer, normalized referrer, landing page, and current page recording.
• Added first-touch referrer recording using lightweight session/cookie storage.
• Added a page-exit beacon fallback for quick browser visits without blocking page load.