Wp Post Views – WordPress Post views counter

Description

WordPress post views counter counts the view of your Built in post type and Custom post type.

Features And Options:

  • Simple, and easy to understand.
  • Option to filter views on IP address to get accurate post count.
  • Option to select the custom post type.

How to Get Post Count in Frontend

Use this shortcode.

[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS]

TO get site wide count of your post type ( Refresh Hourly due to performance reason ).
[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS-PER-POST-TYPE post_type=”post”]
The total view shortcode not working well with large sites.

Tutorial

Development

  • Development happening on GitHub :- WP Post Views Github
  • Create issue on the GitHub OR Pull request for new feature when new tag added it will automatically deployed.

Screenshots

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Installation

  1. Install the plugin either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server (in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory).
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. TO make settings Go to User Admin panel Settings->WP Post views
  4. You can select your custom post type as per requirement.

Reviews

Adar 12, 2024 4 replies
Very easy to use and works great, that is… if not using any fancy caching methods. Edit: Updated to 5 stars. The newest version is working in Litespeed server and LScache enabled. Thanks Ronak and team!
Hezîran 17, 2023 1 reply
I added ” [WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS-PER-POST-TYPE post_type=”post”] ” to the singe post page, and it crashed.. …thats it..
Adar 27, 2023 1 reply
I’m excited to be able to write a positive review for the “Wp Post Views” plugin! This tool does the job it’s supposed to do without any frills, and finally someone has created such a useful plugin! The “Wp Post Views” plugin is incredibly easy to use and offers all the basic features you need to monitor the views of your WordPress posts. There’s nothing superfluous in this plugin – just the essential functions to track visits to your content. I’m really happy to have found the “Wp Post Views” plugin. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a simple and effective way to track views of their WordPress content. Thank you so much for creating this plugin!
Cotmeh 21, 2020
Hi, I have recently used this plugin, and it’s help full for me.
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Contributors & Developers

“Wp Post Views – WordPress Post views counter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.17 – 30/11/2024

  • Complete architecture Changed on How we count views.
  • we are using simple Js insted of AJAX thanks to https://github.com/vanpariyar/wp-post-views/pull/33

1.15 – 12/03/2024

  • Complete architecture Changed on How we count views.
  • We are now using ajax to count views. This will ensure the views getting logged even on the caching set. Please while using cache allow ajax function to run.
  • code changes can be viewed in GitHub -: https://github.com/vanpariyar/wp-post-views/compare/master…28-it-is-sowing-php-errors

1.14 – 21/09/2023

  • Version Bump to 1.14

1.13 – 16/06/2023

  • Version Bump to 1.13
  • Merged new changes for PHPCS and PHPCBF. Thanks @kajalgohel for Contributions

1.12 – 23/01/2023

  • Version Bump to support 6.2

1.11 – 19/10/2022

  • Introduction of the new shortcode
  • [WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS-PER-POST-TYPE post_type=”post”]

1.10 – 18/07/2022

  • Version Bump to support 6.0
  • Added ru_RU ( Russian Translation )
  • fixed https://github.com/vanpariyar/wp-post-views/issues/17
  • https://github.com/vanpariyar/wp-post-views/issues/16

1.9 – 23/01/2022

  • Version Bump to support 5.9

1.8 – 19/12/2021

  • Fix validate_ip() function creates error.

1.6 & 1.7 – 14/07/2020

  • Version bump to 5.8

1.5 – 15/12/2020

  • Enhancement: Fixed IP Related Issue.

1.4 – 15/12/2020

  • Enhancement: Text Domain Change.

1.3 – 26/04/2020

  • Enhancement: Text Domain Change.

1.2 – 26/04/2020

  • Enhancement: Fix the Views Count.
  • Features: Added The Shortcode For Frontend Users.

1.1 – 23/02/2020

  • Enhancement: Fix the error when WP_DEBUG is true.

1.0

  • Innitial: First Version