Comments on: WordPress – Simple Post Views Counter Plugin

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:03:30 +0000

install and activate the plugin.. then add the highlighted code to your index.php, to single.php and to page.php.

The plug in does the work.. it has a function in it called the_views. This function is called inside your code to advance the counter and display the results.

the MOD i did to make it not display if it's zero is something that you don't have to do (probably shouldn't do unless you're a more advanced user).

By: Musa

Musa — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:36:42 +0000

I want this plugin but it seems so complicated to get it running. I'm not so technical, can anybody help

By: Indinnyloyado

Indinnyloyado — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:52:39 +0000

tcqugoduspzdfdoawell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:01:55 +0000

Ok I figured out what was going on there. I was editing the initial post and checking it in a 2nd Safari window. Each time I loaded the post in the 2nd window it would advance the postview counter. However, each time I edited and saved the post in the 1st window it reset the postview counter to 1. This is because the postview counter is an additional field which is re-set when I saved window #1. Confused yet?

Basically the plug in works and the viewcount resetting to 1 was USER ERROR.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:19:30 +0000

hmm.. it was doing it last night but now it’s not. I don’t want to experiment with the Red post, but will the next time I post something new. I also now see that views is a custom field that I can change anyway.

I’ll play around with it. Thanks again for being available to discuss.

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:49:18 +0000

The counter is hooked onto “wp_head”, function name is “process_postviews”

I have not seen this 0 problem before as there is no way it gets rest to 0, unless you mean the “views” meta key gets deleted.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:43:47 +0000

GaMerZ, in writing my post of RED tonight I discovered that the counter resets to zero every time I edit the page.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:00:36 +0000

Cool! Glad you commented. Yeah, simple is good. I can see why you wouldn’t want it to advance the counter unless they actually go to the post page, but I can also see why you would want it to advance if the full post is on your home page.

Is it a simple tweak to change that? What calls the counter so that it could be added to the main loop?

By: GaMerZ

GaMerZ — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:02:09 +0000

Yeap, it counts only when the post is clicked on as in the post permalink and it will be counted as one. It is a very simple plugin no data is logged and hence if you refresh it will +1 again.