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Use something like this : (add it in your function.php) and load your site once. after it finish, deactivate the function. (don’t forget to declare your $postID) function my_update_posts() { $count_key = ‘post_views_count’; $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘numberposts’ => -1 ); $myposts = get_posts($args); foreach ($myposts as $mypost){ $mypost->post_title = $mypost->post_title.”; $count = … Read more

Is there any specific reason you are using $wpdb? You can do the same with WP_Query which is always recommended. So if your meta key for counting post views is views then you can run this WP_Query to return top viewed posts. You can also limit results by posts_per_page. <?php $args = array( ‘post_type’ => … Read more

So this is the code I earlier posted. // Create custom field on post publish function wpse_custom_field_on_publish( $new, $old, $post ) { if ( $new == ‘publish’ && $old != ‘publish’ && !get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘post_views_count’, true ) ) { add_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘post_views’, rand(829, 1013), true ); } } add_action( ‘transition_post_status’, ‘wpse_custom_field_on_publish’, 10, 3 ); Let … Read more

This is a repurposed post from another question which the OP did not find useful, so I’m reposting it here and hopefully will be useful here Please modify the code as needed. Here is a post I have recently done on stackoverflow. It is a modified version of the code you are using. I had … Read more

Yea a bit unclear but I think I understand what your trying to achieve. It’s displaying that like most likely due to css. You could target it with a CSS3 pseudo-selector .sidebar a { float: left; } .sidebar a:nth-child(4n-0) { clear: left; } OR.. this might work, no promises though because I can’t see your … Read more

Just posting an answer so I can close this. It seems the post view counter I see is part of my theme, not a core feature of WordPress as I thought.

add this in your functions.php function getPostViews($postID){ $count_key = ‘post_views_count’; $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true); if($count==”){ delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key); add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’); return “0 View”; } return $count; } function setPostViews($postID) { $count_key = ‘post_views_count’; $count = get_post_meta($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); } }

How to reset post views count

You can optimize your code a bit and localize it. I would add the results from get_post_meta() to a variable and then check the returned result an act upon that You can try something like this <div class=”mypageview”> <?php $views = get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘pageview’, true ); if ( !$views ) _e( ‘0 post views’ ); … Read more