Tracking Post Views Without Plugins for WordPress
Kevin Chard‘s nifty hack allows you to track post views without using any plugin in WordPress. Instead, it uses post meta, inserting a code in the functions.php, and a couple of other steps.
Insert this code inside your functions.php file:
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);
}
}
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Next step is to short code inside the single.php file within the loop, below “setPostViews”:
<?php
setPostViews(get_the_ID());
?>
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Finally, place this inside the template where you want to display the number of views:
<?php
echo getPostViews(get_the_ID());
?>
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You can find Kevin’s quick tutorial HERE.
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