PBJ Analytics 1.6.2: Charts Come to the Public Dashboard
PBJ Analytics 1.6.2 is out, together with the 1.6.1 fix release. The headline: the public read-only dashboard — the single tokenized URL you can hand to a client or stakeholder — now shows real graphs, not just numbers and tables.
Charts on the shared link
The public dashboard now renders the same visuals as the admin dashboard: a day-by-day trend line of pageviews and visitors over the selected range, and a channels breakdown chart with whole-number percentages that always add up to 100. Like everything in PBJ Analytics, the charts are drawn by the locally-bundled copy of Chart.js — no CDNs, no external scripts, no third-party calls, even on the public page.
The shared link renders properly again (1.6.1)
1.6.1 fixed a bug where the tokenized public URL could display a page of escaped text instead of the dashboard. If a shared link ever showed you a wall of markup, updating fixes it — the same URL starts rendering as a proper page.
Report emails stopped pretending (1.6.1)
“Run report now” used to say “generated and emailed” even when WordPress failed to send the mail. It now confirms the actual recipients on success, and on failure tells you why — usually a site that needs an SMTP plugin. Scheduled-run failures are also written to the error log, so a quiet mail problem can’t hide.
Upgrading
With a valid license key saved under Analytics → Settings → License, the update appears on your Plugins screen like any other — one click and you are on 1.6.2. No schema changes, no settings to redo. If the update does not appear right away, re-save your license key and check again.
PBJ Analytics 1.6.2 is out, together with the 1.6.1 fix release. The headline: the public read-only dashboard — the single tokenized URL you can hand to a client or stakeholder — now shows real graphs, not just numbers and tables.
Charts on the shared link
The public dashboard now renders the same visuals as the admin dashboard: a day-by-day trend line of pageviews and visitors over the selected range, and a channels breakdown chart with whole-number percentages that always add up to 100. Like everything in PBJ Analytics, the charts are drawn by the locally-bundled copy of Chart.js — no CDNs, no external scripts, no third-party calls, even on the public page.
The shared link renders properly again (1.6.1)
1.6.1 fixed a bug where the tokenized public URL could display a page of escaped text instead of the dashboard. If a shared link ever showed you a wall of markup, updating fixes it — the same URL starts rendering as a proper page.
Report emails stopped pretending (1.6.1)
“Run report now” used to say “generated and emailed” even when WordPress failed to send the mail. It now confirms the actual recipients on success, and on failure tells you why — usually a site that needs an SMTP plugin. Scheduled-run failures are also written to the error log, so a quiet mail problem can’t hide.
Upgrading
With a valid license key saved under Analytics → Settings → License, the update appears on your Plugins screen like any other — one click and you are on 1.6.2. No schema changes, no settings to redo. If the update does not appear right away, re-save your license key and check again.