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I need to ask a question that has been asked in the past.

How to let authors only see website stats for their posts?

However that question is more than 3 years old. Since significant technical advances have been made since 2011, it's quite possible that there is now a solution for this when before there was not.

How should I go about breathing life into this topic? A new question? Or, should I edit that question and bring it up to date and possibly give it a bounty? Doing so I would have to alter it quite a bit based on my needs, and the OP may not appreciate that. Or is that something I should be concerned about?

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This depends on the details of your and the old question:

  • If your question is just closely related, but different, then go and ask a new question. You can reference/link to the older, related question to make clear that it's not a duplicate question. Best would be to explain the difference to the older question
  • If it is the exact same question and you think the answers could still be better, please just add a bounty.
  • If you are sure that the older questions answers are (technically) outdated, then go with the first option: Ask a new one, reference to the old one. Point is, that new answers might be different when it comes to depth and detail. Also you can't accept a new answer that works with the current state of the core API as the old question was not asked by you.
  • If the older question is your question, then please go and edit it, offer a bounty and explain what has changed since then and what does not work anymore.
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Editing the question might help, upvoting would be better, a bounty would be brilliant. Any activity will pull it up on to the frontpage where there's recent activity making it more visible

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The question requires an answer that would be large. For example, I would imagine something like this:

http://www.highposition.com/blog/how-to-send-author-content-groups-wordpress-google-analytics/

Being exploited. But then you've get to write code to:

  • Create API keys and developer app
  • Authenticate with Google
  • Keep the Google API tokens setup and refreshed
  • Add the necessary google analytics tags and ammendments on author archives and posts
  • Interface with the Google Analytics API
  • Pull down the information
  • Add an admin page
  • Put a js chart on said page

Which would be a hefty answer, requiring high level PHP knowledge dealing with a non-WordPress API.

Instead I would suggest this question needs breaking into smaller ones such as:

  • How to add an admin menu
  • How to use and authenticate the Google PHP API ( Offtopic on this site )
  • How to grab data from a content group on google analytics ( Offtopic on this site )
  • How to specify a content group ( Offtopic on this site )
  • Displaying a JS chart ( Offtopic on this site )

With that in mind, it's unlikely we will have an answer to the question soon.

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