Post Views Counter

Forget WP-PostViews. Display how many times a post, page or custom post type had been viewed in a simple, fast and reliable way.

Description

Post Views Counter allows you to display how many times a post, page or custom post type had been viewed with this simple, fast and easy to use plugin.

For more information, check out plugin page at dFactory or plugin support forum.

Features include:

• Option to select post types for which post views will be counted and displayed.
• 2 methods of collecting post views data: PHP and Javascript, for greater flexibility
• Possibility to manually set views count for each post
• Dashboard post views stats widget
• Capability to query posts according to its views count
• Option to set time between counts
• Excluding counts from visitors: bots, logged in users, selected user roles
• Excluding users by IPs
• Restricting display by user roles
• Restricting post views editing to admins
• One-click data import from WP-PostViews
• Sortable admin column
• Post views display position, automatic or manual via shortcode
• W3 Cache/WP SuperCache compatible
• Optional object cache support
• WPML and Polylang compatible
• .pot file for translations included

Installation

1. Install Post Views Counter either via the WordPress.org plugin directory, or by uploading the files to your server
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Go to the Post Views Counter settings and set your options.

Changelog

1.2.1

• New: Option to display post views on select page types
• Tweak: Dashboard widget query optimization

1.2.0

• New: Dashboard post views stats widget
• Fix: A couple of typos in method names

1.1.1

• Tweak: Enable edit views on new post.
• Tweak: Extend WP_Query post data with post_views

1.1.0

• New: Quick post views edit
• New: Bulk post views edit
• Tweak: Admin UI improvements

1.0.8

• New: Croation translation, thanks to Tomas Trkulja

1.0.7

• New: Possibility to manually set views count for each post
• New: Plugin development moved to dFactory GitHub Repository

1.0.6

• New: Object cache support, thanks to Tomas Trkulja
• New: Hebrew translation, thanks to Ahrale Shrem

1.0.5

• Tweak: Added number_format_i18n for displayed views count
• Tweak: Additional action hook for developers

1.0.4

• Fix: Possible issue with remove_post_views_count function

1.0.3

• New: Russian translation, thanks to moonkir
• Fix: Remove [post-views] shortcode from post excerpts if excerpt is empty

1.0.2

• Fix: Pluggable functions initialized too lately

1.0.0

Initial release