Contributors: GamerZ
Donate link: http://lesterchan.net/site/donation/
Tags: views, hits, counter, postviews
Requires at least: 3.0
Tested up to: 4.4
Stable tag: 1.73
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/
http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/
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.
- FIXED: In preview mode, don't count views
- NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL% to template variables
- FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3
- FIXED: Integration with WP-Stats
- 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
- NEW: Added action hook 'postviews_increment_views' and 'postviews_increment_views_ajax'
- NEW: Allow custom post type to be chosen under the widget
- NEW: Allow user to not use AJAX to update the views even though WP_CACHE is true
- 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.
- FIXED: Views not showing in WP-Admin if "Display Options" is not set to "Display to everyone"
- NEW: Using Enqueue Script For WP_CACHE Enabled Sites. Props Crowd Favourite
- FIXED: Viewcounter always display eventhough "display to registered users only" is set
- NEW: Added nonce To PostViews Options Admin Page
- NEW: Add "Views" Column To Manage Pages In WP-Admin
- NEW: Add Sortable "Views" Column To Manage Posts/Pages In WP-Admin
- FIXED: Move AJAX Request to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
- NEW: Added Views Count To Edit Posts Screen
- FIXED: Removed Global $post
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.8 Only
- NEW: Uses jQuery Framework
- NEW: Added In Most Viewed Pages To WP-Stats
- NEW: Use _n() Instead Of __ngettext() And _n_noop() Instead Of __ngettext_noop()
- FIXED: Uses $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] With plugin_basename(FILE) Instead Of Just $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
- NEW: Uses New Widget Class From WordPress
- NEW: Merge Widget Code To wp-postviews.php And Remove wp-postviews-widget.php
- NEW: Added get_most_viewed_tag() And get_least_viewed_tag()
- FIXED: Ensure That Post Is Not A Revision
- FIXED: Multiple Loops Filtered Not Cleared
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.7 Only
- NEW: Options To Display Views On Certain Places by David Potter
- NEW: Right To Left Language Support by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
- NEW: Output Of the_views() Applied To "the_views" Filter by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
- NEW: Called postviews_textdomain() In views_init() by Kambiz R. Khojasteh
- NEW: Uses plugins_url() And site_url()
- NEW: Added get_least_viewed() And get_least_viewed_category() By JBrinx
- FIXED: "views" Custom Field Gets Created Now When Post Is Published
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.6
- NEW: Renamed GET Variables sortby To v_sortby And orderby To v_orderby
- NEW: Better Translation Using __ngetext() by Anna Ozeritskaya
- FIXED: Able To Use v_sortby And v_orderby in query_posts()
- NEW: Uses /wp-postviews/ Folder Instead Of /postviews/
- NEW: Uses wp-postviews.php Instead Of postviews.php
- NEW: Uses wp-postviews-widget.php Instead Of postviews-widget.php
- NEW: Uses number_format_i18n() Instead Of number_format()
- NEW: Option To Exclude Bots Views In 'WP-Admin -> Settings -> Post Views'
- NEW: Added Most Viewed Template
- NEW: Change The Way WP-PostViews Count Views
- NEW: Should Work With WP-Cache Or WP-SuperCache
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.3 Only
- NEW: Most Viewed Widget Added
- NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-PostViews
- NEW: Uses WP-Stats Filter To Add Stats Into WP-Stats Page
- FIXED: Wrong URL For Page Under Most Viewed Posts Listing
- NEW: Works For WordPress 2.1 Only
- NEW: Localization WP-PostViews
- NEW: Added Function To Get Most Viewed Post By Category ID
- FIXED: Views Not Counting In Some Cases
- NEW: Change In get_most_viewed() To Accommodate Latest Version Of WP-Stats
- NEW: Added Get Total Views Function
- FIXED: Modified Get Most Viewed Post Function
- NEW: Initial Release
- Open
wp-content/plugins
Folder - Put:
Folder: wp-postviews
- Activate
WP-PostViews
Plugin - Go to
WP-Admin -> Settings -> PostViews
to configure the plugin.
- Open
wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php
- You may place it in archive.php, single.php, post.php or page.php also.
- Find:
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
- Add Anywhere Below It (The Place You Want The Views To Show):
<?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
- Or you can use the shortcode
[views]
or[views id="1"]
(where 1 is the post ID) in a post
- Deactivate
wp-postviews
Plugin - Open
wp-content/plugins
Folder - Put/Overwrite:
Folder: wp-postviews
- Activate
WP-PostViews
Plugin
N/A
- PostViews
- Admin - PostViews Options
- Go to
WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
- The widget name is Views.
- Use:
* 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);
- Use:
* 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);
- Use:
* 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);
- Use:
* 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);
- Use:
* 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);
- Use:
* 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);
- 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.