WP-PostViews

Contributors: GamerZ
Donate link: https://lesterchan.net/site/donation/
Tags: views, hits, counter, postviews
Requires at least: 4.0
Tested up to: 6.3
Stable tag: 1.78

Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.

Description

Usage

1. Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php
2. You may place it in archive.php, single.php, post.php or page.php also.
3. Find: <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
4. Add Anywhere Below It (The Place You Want The Views To Show): <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
5. Or you can use the shortcode [views] or [views id="1"] (where 1 is the post ID) in a post
6. Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> PostViews to configure the plugin.

Development

https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/

Translations

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/

Credits

• Plugin icon by Iconmoon from Flaticon

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Changelog

Version 1.78

• NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL_URL% to template variables

Version 1.77

• NEW: Use Vanilla JS. Props @JiveDig
• NEW: Bump to WordPress 6.2
• NEW: Support views under fields for Rest API. Props @vitro-mod

Version 1.76.1

• NEW: Add Post Author in views template
• NEW: Bump for WordPress 5.3

Version 1.76

• NEW: Added postviews_should_count filter
• FIXED: Change to (int) from intval() and use sanitize_key() with it.

Version 1.75

• NEW: Use WP_Query() for most/least viewed posts

Version 1.74

• NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
• NEW: Template variable %POST_CATEGORY_ID%. It returns Post's Category ID. If you are using Yoast SEO Plugin, it will return the priority Category ID. Props @FunFrog-BY

Version 1.73

• FIXED: In preview mode, don't count views

Version 1.72

• NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL% to template variables

Version 1.71

• FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3

Version 1.70

• FIXED: Integration with WP-Stats

Version 1.69

• NEW: Shortcode [views] or [views id="POST_ID"]` to embed view count into post
• NEW: Added template variable %VIEW_COUNT_ROUNDED% to support rounded view count like 10.1k or 11.2M

Version 1.68

• NEW: Added action hook 'postviews_increment_views' and 'postviews_increment_views_ajax'
• NEW: Allow custom post type to be chosen under the widget

Version 1.67

• NEW: Allow user to not use AJAX to update the views even though WP_CACHE is true

Version 1.66

• NEW: Supports MultiSite Network Activation
• NEW: Add %POST_DATE% and %POST_TIME% to template variables
• NEW: Add China isearch engines bots
• NEW: Ability to pass in an array of post types for get_most/least_*() functions. Props Leo Plaw.
• FIXED: Moved uninstall to uninstall.php and hence fix missing nonce. Props Julio Potier.
• FIXED: Notices and better way to get views from meta. Props daankortenbach.
• FIXED: No longer needing add_post_meta() if update_post_meta() fails.

Version 1.65 (02-06-2013)

• FIXED: Views not showing in WP-Admin if "Display Options" is not set to "Display to everyone"

Upgrade Notice

N/A

Screenshots

1. PostViews
2. Admin - PostViews Options

Frequently Asked Questions

How To View Stats With Widgets?

• Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
• The widget name is Views.

To Display Least Viewed Posts

<?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_least_viewed(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The second value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_least_viewed('both', 10);

To Display Most Viewed Posts

<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_most_viewed(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The second value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_most_viewed('both', 10);

To Display Least Viewed Posts By Tag

<?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed_tag')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_least_viewed_tag(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the tag id.
• The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_least_viewed_tag(1, 'both', 10);

To Display Most Viewed Posts By Tag

<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_tag')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_most_viewed_tag(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the tag id.
• The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_most_viewed_tag(1, 'both', 10);

To Display Least Viewed Posts For A Category

<?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed_category')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_least_viewed_category(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the category id.
• The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_least_viewed_category(1, 'both', 10);

To Display Most Viewed Posts For A Category

<?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_category')): ?>
	<ul>
		<?php get_most_viewed_category(); ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

• The first value you pass in is the category id.
• The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page').
• The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get.
• Default: get_most_viewed_category(1, 'both', 10);

To Sort Most/Least Viewed Posts

• You can use: <?php query_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'views', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ); ?>
• Or pass in the variables to the URL: http://yoursite.com/?v_sortby=views&v_orderby=desc
• You can replace DESC with ASC if you want the least viewed posts.

To Display Updating View Count With LiteSpeed Cache

Use: <div id="postviews_lscwp"></div> to replace <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>. NOTE: The id can be changed, but the div id and the ajax function must match. Replace the ajax query in wp-content/plugins/wp-postviews/postviews-cache.js with

jQuery.ajax({
    type:"GET",
    url:viewsCacheL10n.admin_ajax_url,
    data:"postviews_id="+viewsCacheL10n.post_id+"&action=postviews",
    cache:!1,
    success:function(data) {
        if(data) {
            jQuery('#postviews_lscwp').html(data+' views');
        }
   }
});

Purge the cache to use the updated pages.

To Get Views With REST API

You can obtain the number of post views by adding views to your _fields parameter: /wp/v2/posts?_fields=views,title