Getting Started

Here we will learn how to setup everything to start tracking http requests in your site.

Setting up schemes#

First of all we have to specify what kind of requests we want to track. Schemes are used to specify just that.

1. Download, Install and activate this plugin from WordPress.org or directly from your site's admin panel.

2. Then go to the Schemes submenu under HTTP Requests Tracker main menu.

3. Click on Add Scheme

You will see a form as below:

Here you will specify what type of requests should be tracked.

4. Change the title so that you can know easily what type of requests are being tracked by this Scheme later on.

5. For the type, there are 4 options:

   1. Regular Expression Using this you can match any URLs. For learning how to create Regular Expression please refer to RegexOne site or any other online resource you can find. Please enter the expression in the Pattern field you will be given after selecting this option.
   2. Absolute URL This will track those http requests that have the same exact URL you provide. Please enter the URL in the URL field you will be given after selecting this option.
   3. Relative URL This will track those http requests that have same relative URL you provide. Relative URL is the part of a URL that comes after domain name. For example, in http://example.com/post-1, the part /post-1 is the Relative url. Please enter the URL in the URL field you will be given after selecting this option.
   4. Predefined This will give you predefined types of requests. Currenlty there is only Ajax requests and you also cannot specify parameters or type of Ajax requests. So, it's not very useful right now.

6. After selecting type, click on Add button to add the Scheme.

In this example, we have selected type Regular Expression and the expression wp-admin\/\?test$. This will track all the requests that have URL ending with wp-admin/?test.

Accessing logs and statistics#

Now we will see how we can see logs and statistics of the tracked requests.

Logs#

When tracking http requests the plugin will create logs of each tracked requests with informations like which scheme matched with the request, what URL it matched, date-time of the request, which user made the request etc. To access all the logs

1. Go to the Stats submenu under HTTP Requests Tracker main menu.

2. Then select the Logs tab

There you will see the list of logs

Statistics#

You can also view the statistics of the requests that have been tracked. To access statistics

1. Go to the Stats submenu under HTTP Requests Tracker main menu.

2. Then select the Statistics tab

There you will see the statistics

Read on#

To learn more go to the docs page