So, here I am using Boombox Theme for my community website and I wanna show "Total post reads/views" from a user, for example an A user has 10 post and has various views each post, I need the total view from all of A's post. is it possible to do it in wordpress platform? since what i found in my database tables, i couldn't find any related field i could "play" for.
I've tried to modify an update_post_meta function, tried to add another condition on the function.php file, but it doesn't work.
here's the function:
function boombox_update_post_total_view( $scale, $post_id ) {
if( absint( $scale ) > 0 ) {
$total = intval( boombox_get_post_meta( $post_id, 'total_views' ) );
$total += $scale;
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'total_views', $total);
}
}
add_action( 'boombox/view_total_updated', 'boombox_update_post_total_view', 10, 2 );
and here's the database table structure: database table structure
thank you. NB: I don't even sure that I edited the correct file.
This will work with any theme.
Step 1: Add this codes from the following block in your themes function.php file.
function getPostViews($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);
}
}
// Remove issues with prefetching adding extra views
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
Step 2: Add this line of code to single.php file. Please note that it should be inside the loop, you can add it right after the_content()
:
setPostViews(get_the_ID());
For example, it should be:
the_content(); setPostViews(get_the_ID());
Step 3: Add this line of code where you want to show the total of post's view:
echo getPostViews(get_the_ID());
Source: https://www.themexpert.com/blog/track-display-post-views-in-wordpress