¿Estás buscando una manera de rastrear las visitas a las entradas sin un plugin usando post meta? Si bien es probable que haya un plugin para esto, hemos creado un fragmento de código rápido que se puede utilizar para realizar un seguimiento de vistas de post sin un plugin usando post meta en WordPress.
Instrucciones:
Añade este código al archivo functions.php de tu tema o en un plugin específico del sitio:
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 $count.' Views';
}
function setPostViews($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, $count);
}
}
// Remove issues with prefetching adding extra views
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
Opcionalmente, añada también este código a una columna del administrador de WordPress que muestre las vistas de las entradas:
// Add to a column in WP-Admin
add_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'posts_column_views');
add_action('manage_posts_custom_column', 'posts_custom_column_views',5,2);
function posts_column_views($defaults){
$defaults['post_views'] = __('Views');
return $defaults;
}
function posts_custom_column_views($column_name, $id){
if($column_name === 'post_views'){
echo getPostViews(get_the_ID());
}
}
Esta parte del código de seguimiento de vistas establecerá las vistas de la entrada. Sólo tiene que colocar este código a continuación dentro del archivo single.php dentro del bucle de WordPress.
<?php
setPostViews(get_the_ID());
?>
Nota sobre el almacenamiento en caché de fragmentos: Si está utilizando un plugin de almacenamiento en caché como W3 Total Cache, el método anterior para establecer vistas no funcionará, ya que la función setPostViews() nunca se ejecutaría. Sin embargo, W3 Total Cache tiene una función llamada fragment caching. En lugar del método anterior, utilice el siguiente para que la función set PostViews() se ejecute correctamente y rastree todas las vistas de sus entradas incluso cuando tenga habilitado el almacenamiento en caché.
<!-- mfunc setPostViews(get_the_ID()); --><!-- /mfunc -->
El siguiente código es opcional. Utilice este código si desea mostrar el número de visitas dentro de sus mensajes. Coloque este código dentro del Bucle.
<?php
echo getPostViews(get_the_ID());
?>
Nota: Si es la primera vez que añade fragmentos de código en WordPress, consulte nuestra guía sobre cómo copiar / pegar correctamente fragmentos de código en WordPress, para no romper accidentalmente su sitio.
Si te ha gustado este fragmento de código, por favor considere revisar nuestros otros artículos en el sitio como: 10 mejores plugins de testimonios para WordPress y cómo configurar el seguimiento de autores en WordPress con Google Analytics.
Hi, looking for query to remove posts without views, any ideas ? thanks 🙂
Kevin, Thanks for this nice snippet.
How will this work for a site with a very large traffic volume? I was looking into a post view plugin that is very popular (can’t remember the name of it now), and that was a concern mentioned in the comments.
It works fine with new versions of WP. Make sure you have things setup correctly.
Hi, there any way to reset the counter to zero views?
Hi Cyndy everything is saved as meta data so you can just go into the post and change the value from whatever it is to zero.
Kevin, thanks
your tutorial very useful!!
Hi Cyndy, Hi Kevin.
Cool code.
I can’t find the exact place where this meta data is stored for each post to change it.
Inside the post (From Dashboard->Post->Edit) there is only the content of the post, no meta data.
Thanks.
Hi Kevin!
I used your snippet for some time now and I’m happy, but in the last weeks something happened and it stopped counting all the views. I know this because i see 500 views from google analytics, yet the snippet shows only 18 views? I’m using the exact code you presented here, no modifications. I just changed a count last month and since then everything stopped working.
Normally this would be because you have installed a new plugin or something along that lines. I have tested this snippet on new versions of wordpress and it should work just fine. Do you happen to have a cache plugin running on your site, like w3 total cache?
I do have w3 installed. how is it affecting the snippet? it worked until now with it side by side, why is it causing problems now? I cleaned the cache many times and still nothing. ughhhh!
because it would not be calling the setPost function since things are cached, send me an email using the contact form and ill send you and updated version that will solve the problem.
can you share here?
Is there any way for the views count to be reset every day in order to show just the number of views for the current day?
Hi Pere,
Yes absolutely, but you would have to change a fair amount of code to achieve this. Unfortunately not just a simple change,
This is exactly what I am looking for. Is there any place where I can get this information?
I need to implement a Trending Section Page for a customer of mine and I am a bit stuck with this at the moment. It seems I can’t get any information about it around the web.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Hi Pere, did you find anything out about it?
Is there anyway to get this to only register unique views? Bashing f5 on my keyboard is cranking up the numbers.
Hi Mark,
Yes but not easily with this snippet. You could do some cookie checking, or tracking of ip addresses for better but not perfect unique views. Or even require users to be logged in and track on a users by user basis.
$count = 0; in setPostViews() on line #15 should be removed, it doesn’t really do anything 😉
Hands down the quickest snippet to implement
I’m using it for several frontend notification methods, great work
You rock!
thank’s this tutorial
Where is the count stored? Is it in a database?
Wanted to know if it’s possible to change the values.
Works well for me on latest version of wordpress, thanks.
for me it is counting twice…
Hi Andrew, is likely prefetching, or the setViews is added more than once. To solve the one issue try adding this. Note the code above.
// Remove issues with prefetching adding extra views
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0);
Hi, this seems to stop working in WP 4.0. Can anyone confirm or provide fix? thx u!
Have you heard anything on this? I just upgraded to 4.0, and would like to use this.
Same here.
I’m using 4.0 and nothing wrong 🙂
Wow. This saved me time. Very nice dude thank you.
Great snippet but still incrementing on every post.
Hello!
Sorry for bad english, I’m using a translator. I’m from Brazil.
I have a site that already has several views on the post, as I do not lose these views? Is to update the database? I use this plugin: WP-PostViews
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Hi Randy you can do the following by adding a div around the php function. i added a sample on pastebin
http://pastebin.com/ThLasSJB
I tried that right now and its not working.
I tried that right now and its not working.
I tried that right now and its not working.
I tried that right now and its not working.
I tried that right now and its not working.
I tried that right now and its not working.
Hi Randy,
is the snippet displaying the number of views? if so it has something to do with your css or html as copying that snippet and placing it within your single post loop should work fine. You just have to define some styles to apply.
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You
Would you happen to help me in styling the echo output. I want to put the views count on my loop and I accomplished that perfectly but how do I add a css to the output for the text? Any ideas on that. Thank You