WordPress Jetpack: Don't Count Admin Views
One of the annoyances that I have had with WordPress is that fact that the Stats module will count my page views which, when I'm trying to make something look how I want it to look, can exceed 100 in a day. This has pretty much entirely destroyed the meaning of my stats since moving from Blogger.
The bug has been open for the better part of 3 years, as far as I can tell from the other people complaining, and the bug reports on the website. The manual fix, however, was only two lines long.
In the file jetpack/modules/stats.php, there is a function that looks like:
function stats_template_redirect() {
global $wp_the_query, $current_user, $stats_footer;
if ( is_feed() || is_robots() || is_trackback())
return;
$options = stats_get_options();
If this is replaced with
function stats_template_redirect() {
global $wp_the_query, $current_user, $stats_footer;
if ( is_feed() || is_robots() || is_trackback() || in_array('administrator', $current_user->roles))
return;
$options = stats_get_options();
Then the plugin works as expected.
Be aware that this change will be reverted whenever JetPack is upgraded. Any may not work in future versions