Post Counts Before Installation

Hi Gary!

Thank you for the kind words ??

No, unfortunately there’s no way to import data from other plugins and/or third-party services yet.

Is there a way to manually set the counter?

BTW – importing page counts is a big value. Without this feature I don’t know if it’s worth installing a popular page count plugin. I really need the long history. I have hundreds of pages with thousands of views each.

You could try editing the database tables directly: wp_popularpostsdata holds the “All-time” Time Range info, and wp_popularpostssummary contains the data of the rest of the Time Ranges. The easiest one to edit is the former, the latter stores daily views data and represents a lot of manual work if your site has been running for a while now.

I did plan on adding some sort of data import to retrieve data from Google Analytics a couple of years ago but the whole process was so complicated in terms of user friendliness back then that I discarded the idea completely: the steps required to integrate WP with their API is not something an average user -eg. a graphic designer, a blogger or a shop owner- could do easily, which goes against my it-has-to-be-simple philosophy.

I do see the value of being able to import data into the plugin, it’s just that if I decide to add such a feature I have to plan it out well so everyone can do it painlessly (which in the end would make my life easier as well, less chances of getting “it doesn’t work” / “I don’t understand how to do this” reports.)

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Hector Cabrera.