Post Views Function No Longer Counting in Single.php

Hello casbboy

It’s better to handle this using ajax. But could you please try the following function?

function cherry_setPostViews($postID){

define('DONOTCACHEPAGE', true);
define('DONOTCACHEDB', true);
define('DONOTCACHCEOBJECT', true);

$count_key = 'post_views_count';
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
if($count==''){
$count = 1;
}else{
$count++;
}
update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
}

Have a good day!

Cheers
Ash

Thanks, I added that to the function and it didn’t work. I’ve also now have this on the single.php

<!–mfunc dirtybird cherry_setPostViews(get_the_ID()); –>
cherry_setPostViews(get_the_ID());
<!–/mfunc dirtybird –>

lets say dirtybird is my secret. The above does NOT work, but below works:

<!–mfunc dirtybird echo ‘The time is ‘.date( ‘H:i:s’, time() ); –>
echo ‘The time is ‘.date( ‘H:i:s’, time() );
<!–/mfunc dirtybird –>

So strange issue with running the function. And it’s definitely page cache. If we clear page cache, the function will work once, when building cache. But not again.

Actually, this seems to work. The function counts views twice now, but at least it is responding.

<!–mfunc dirtybird cherry_setPostViews(get_the_ID()); –>
<?php cherry_setPostViews(get_the_ID()); ?>
<!–/mfunc dirtybird –>

Since this function is at the top of the page, is it effectively saying not to cache the post page?

No since it is fragment caching it will cache the rest of the page but not that section of php. Of course using ajax is the best way to handle page views and you should look at that being integrated to your theme.

Also make sure to add mfunc to your ignore list if you are using html minification.

Hey Destac,

I settled by shutting off page cacheing for the time being, as too much stuff was breaking. ( a couple other plugins, like Social Warfare, weren’t playing nicely with it)

But, when it comes to adding mfunc to the ignore list, I don’t have HTML minify enabled.

Cheers!
Ryan