WP-PostViews

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

https://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.

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”

Screenshots

FAQ

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: https://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

Reviews

No longer works with Advanced Queries / Elementor

whitelabelcroydon April 26, 2024

Have been using this a while along side Advanced Queries and Elementors Loop widget to display a list grid of most popular articles on a website. Doesnt seem to be working anymore. I think its still keeping count of the post views, but the views template variable isnt pulling in the correct posts. From the posts it is showing it looked like it stopped updating in January of this year. Will need to find another solution!

It doesn’t work with 6.5.2 wordpres version

sergio.pinna.prato April 21, 2024

It doesn’t work with 6.5.2 wordpres version.

I guess this is no longer in supported

Beulahland83 January 8, 2023

The plugin is no longer compatible with some themes example of (Corpo)

very useful

douggeeks March 23, 2022

Very useful little plugin.

Awesome

Ahmed Faruk December 6, 2021

This is the Plugin that I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

Very nice plugin!

eddy0522 July 25, 2021

Very nice plugin, but I still have an advice that the view counter data should be saved in a new table. Now it was saved in “wp_postmeta”. Maybe it can be improved. Never mind, just my idea. Thanks!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

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