why use a custom table for this? eliminate the whole save_post function and just use get_post_meta and update_post_meta to check/increment the view count. this is exactly what post meta data is for.
Few remarks: You should consider using a prefix on your meta key, for example lars_views, to minimize the risk of other plugins messing around with it. If you want to hide it from the edit screen, you can use an underscore: _lars_views. Consider wrapping the part of your code, that updates the counter, with if( … Read more
To narrow down the possible causes I’d strongly recommend using a debugging plugin on your development server, like Query Monitor, so you can see the SQL being generated by your query. Alternatively check the request property of your $wp_query object. It’s always possible, if you only recently installed the plugin, that there aren’t any posts … Read more
Use the following functionto set views manually function setPostViewsManually($postID, $viewCount) { $count_key = ‘post_views_count’; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $viewCount); } You can run this code by <?php setPostViewsManually(get_the_ID(), 1234); ?> The above code will set the view to ‘1234’ for the current post. Run this function carefully else your new views will … Read more
Gathering page view statistics is inherently write operation, which is inherently heavy on resources. There are no appropriate mechanisms in WP for high volume writes at low resource consumption. Your best bet is using external analytics system/service and retrieving page view data from it.
$post isn’t set in an admin-ajax.php request because you’re not querying for any post or inside a loop. In your script that sends the ajax request you’ll need to send the post ID and retrieve a post object in the callback: function ajax_cart_send_mail(){ $post = get_post( $_POST[‘post_id’] ); $id = $post->ID; $name = $post->post_title; } … Read more
WordPress doesn’t record the visit statistics in the database. If you want to show top visited categories, you must then record statistics somewhere. What’s why there are plugins designed to fill out this need. Of course, you can write your own code to record visits in the database. This will be a good starting point.
WP post views plugin already does this job very well. So just install that plugin , then use function like this <?php if (function_exists(‘get_most_viewed’)): ?> <ul> <?php get_most_viewed(‘custom post type name’,20); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> For more info, check this FAQ page
Try this Works on single site // post views function setAndViewPostViews($postID) { $count_key = ‘views’; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); if($count==”){ $count = 0; delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key); add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’); }else{ $count++; update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count); } return $count; /* so you can show it */ } You need to add the following function to your theme’s … Read more
WordPress does not maintain post view count by default. But you may find the following post helpful. Does wordpress have a post hit counter? You may also have a look on the WP-PostViews plugin. Many thanks.