How to disable postviews from writing to database on pages

Remove
https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/blob/master/wp-postviews.php#L670

and do a ! is_page() on https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/blob/master/wp-postviews.php#L56

Hello,

I just applied the instruction but it did not work, when I visit my site (about-us) page and I check the page list in wp admin the views counter for the (about-us) page still increased by 1. The counter is still writing to the database on every page reload of the (about-us) page.

1. I changed if ( is_single() || is_page() ) { to if ( is_single() || ! is_page() ) { OR What do you mean by “do a ! is_page() on https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/blob/master/wp-postviews.php#L56”

2. I also deleted this line of code add_action(‘publish_page’, ‘add_views_fields’); on https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/blob/master/wp-postviews.php#L670

This plugin can be resource intensive so counting views of pages like about-us, contact-us and privacy policy page is a waste, I just want to count views of only single blog posts.

Sorry, this is the furthest I can help you with. I don’t provide support for modification of the plugin to suit your needs since it is a free plugin. The plugin is provided as it is.

If you want I can modify this plugin to not count pages for a fee of course.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Lester Chan.

If you use the latest version of the plugin https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/archive/master.zip,

You can do the following in functions.php

add_filter( 'postviews_should_count', 'postviews_should_count', 10, 2 );
function postviews_should_count( $should_count, $id ) {
    return ! is_page( $id );
}

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Lester Chan.