[Plugin: WP-PostViews] Added a function to get post views by post ID

Hello

I added a function in the plugin to get post views by post ID (get_the_views).
I also modified ‘the_views’ function to handle this new function.

Hope this helps !

### Function: Display The Post Views
function the_views($display = true, $prefix = '', $postfix = '', $always = false) {
    $views = get_the_views(null, $prefix, $postfix, $always);
    if ($display) {
       echo $views;
    }  else {
       return $views;
    }
}

### Function: Display The Post Views By Post ID
if (!function_exists('get_the_views')) {
    function get_the_views($post_id = null, $prefix = '', $postfix = '', $always = false)
    {
        $post_id = (null === $post_id) ? get_the_ID() : $post_id;
        $custom_fields = get_post_custom_values('views', $post_id);
        $post_views = intval($custom_fields[0]);
        $views_options = get_option('views_options');

        if ($always || should_views_be_displayed($views_options)) {
            $output = $prefix . str_replace('%VIEW_COUNT%', number_format_i18n($post_views), $views_options['template']) . $postfix;
            return apply_filters('the_views', $output);
        }
        return '';
    }
}

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