Views not stored in database

Hey there!

I develop WPP on localhost and it works normally, so it’s definitely something on your end. However, with so little info from you it’s a bit difficult to tell what’s going on so let’s try this:

1. Go to Settings > WordPress Popular Posts.
2. Add &tab=debug to the URL in the address bar.
3. Copy the info from the Debug screen and share it here.

here ya go

PHP version: 7.1.7

PHP extensions: Core, bcmath, calendar, ctype, date, filter, hash, iconv, json, mcrypt, SPL, pcre, readline, Reflection, session, standard, mysqlnd, tokenizer, zip, zlib, libxml, dom, PDO, bz2, SimpleXML, xml, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, apache2handler, openssl, curl, fileinfo, gd, gettext, mbstring, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, Phar, ftp

Database version: 10.1.25-MariaDB

InnoDB availability: DEFAULT

WordPress version: 4.8.2

Multisite: No

Active plugins: Flexible Posts Widget 3.5.0, Pods - Custom Content Types and Fields 2.6.11, WordPress Popular Posts 4.0.9

Thanks!

Everything seems in order to me. So, next:

• Is Data Sampling enabled?
• Install and configure Log Viewer and look for PHP warnings / errors.
• Disable all the other plugins and check if WPP is able to update the views count of your posts & pages.
• Check your site using a different browser and see if WPP registers your visits.
• You removed the information about the theme. Is this a theme you’re developing?
• Visit a post or a page with the console open and take a screen capture so I can check the output.

Ah, another one: switch to a different theme (Twenty Seventeen, for example) and visit a post or a page. Was WPP able to log your visit?

Found the culprit!

it seems uBlock Origin is the culprit, it blocks the script named tracking.js.

Perhaps change the js file name to wpp.js?

It’s worth a shot. Please rename the file to wpp.js (find it here: wp-content/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/public/js/) and update the filename in wp-content/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/public/class-wordpress-popular-posts-public.php as well. Do a hard-refresh (ctrl+F5 / cmd+F5) or clear your browser’s cache and check again.

Let me know if with that uBlock stops blocking the script. If so, I’ll include this change into the next release.

no go unfortunately, uBlock Origins will still block the renamed js tracking code.

edit: my bad renaming the file works as intended, have to do a full browser cache cleanup

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Damienov.

I’m out of ideas, then.

You can try asking the developer of uBlock Origins why his extension is blocking WPP’s tracking script. He may be able to pinpoint the cause and if it’s something I can fix then I’ll gladly do so. Until then, you either disable uBlock while you develop your project or use a different browser without uBlock installed on it.

Edit: thanks for the update! That’s good news! Alright then, I’ll do a couple of tests to make sure everything works correctly and push an update with this change.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by Hector Cabrera.

It works just by renaming, I just need to fully clear my browser cache, hard refresh didn’t do it for me.

Thank you for the quick response Hector!

CSS/JS files named tracking, ad, adsense, etc. uBlock origin and other adblock plugins will always block them. Better is to rename tracking.js file to something else in the next release…