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Everytime wordpress stats updates, I need to provide the API key. Is there someway to automate this?

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This plugin? wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats – artlung Aug 12 '10 at 3:54
Yup..That's the one. – thunderror Aug 12 '10 at 5:38
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I've updated the plugin a few times on numerous blogs and never had to re-enter the API Key. Do you have a similar issue with the Askimet plugin? – Adam Dempsey Aug 12 '10 at 14:38
What other plug-ins are you running on that site? There might be some interference by another system ... I've never had this problem on any site using WP Stats ... – EAMann♦ Aug 12 '10 at 20:56
@Adam, Now that I think of it, Akismet never gave me any problems. @EAMann Well, its a huge list, but I doubt that could be the issue. – thunderror Aug 16 '10 at 6:20

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This is why:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stats/tags/1.7.2/stats.php#L685

The deactivation hook deletes your database information. I'm guessing you're manually deactivating the plugin, updating, and then re-activating? If so, that runs the deactivation hook. Fortunately, that's not from the latest version. This is:

http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/stats/tags/1.7.3/stats.php#L686

So that shouldn't happen anymore.

By the way, you shouldn't think that this means you were doing anything wrong. They shouldn't be deleting information on deactivation, only on uninstall. Kind of strange that they were doing it at all...

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Great! I always wondered why only the stats plugin was behaving weird. – thunderror Aug 18 '10 at 8:19

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