WP-PostViews

Usage

1. Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php
2. You may place it in archive.php, single.php, post.php or page.php also.
3. Find: <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
4. Add Anywhere Below It (The Place You Want The Views To Show): <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>
5. Or you can use the shortcode [views] or [views id="1"] (where 1 is the post ID) in a post
6. Go to WP-Admin -> Settings -> PostViews to configure the plugin.

Development

https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/

Translations

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/

Credits

• Plugin icon by Iconmoon from Flaticon

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Version 1.76.1

• NEW: Add Post Author in views template
• NEW: Bump for WordPress 5.3

Version 1.76

• NEW: Added postviews_should_count filter
• FIXED: Change to (int) from intval() and use sanitize_key() with it.

Version 1.75

• NEW: Use WP_Query() for most/least viewed posts

Version 1.74

• NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7
• NEW: Template variable %POST_CATEGORY_ID%. It returns Post’s Category ID. If you are using Yoast SEO Plugin, it will return the priority Category ID. Props @FunFrog-BY

Version 1.73

• FIXED: In preview mode, don’t count views

Version 1.72

• NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL% to template variables

Version 1.71

• FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3

Version 1.70

• FIXED: Integration with WP-Stats

Version 1.69

• NEW: Shortcode [views] or [views id=”POST_ID”]` to embed view count into post
• NEW: Added template variable %VIEW_COUNT_ROUNDED% to support rounded view count like 10.1k or 11.2M

Version 1.68

• NEW: Added action hook ‘postviews_increment_views’ and ‘postviews_increment_views_ajax’
• NEW: Allow custom post type to be chosen under the widget

Version 1.67

• NEW: Allow user to not use AJAX to update the views even though WP_CACHE is true

Version 1.66

• NEW: Supports MultiSite Network Activation
• NEW: Add %POST_DATE% and %POST_TIME% to template variables
• NEW: Add China isearch engines bots
• NEW: Ability to pass in an array of post types for get_most/least_*() functions. Props Leo Plaw.
• FIXED: Moved uninstall to uninstall.php and hence fix missing nonce. Props Julio Potier.
• FIXED: Notices and better way to get views from meta. Props daankortenbach.
• FIXED: No longer needing add_post_meta() if update_post_meta() fails.

Version 1.65 (02-06-2013)

• FIXED: Views not showing in WP-Admin if “Display Options” is not set to “Display to everyone”