Post Views In Byline

[buddy_boy8403Participant Post count: 124]

Does anyone have a good solution for putting the post views in the byline?

[SusanModerator Post count: 3177]

Have you tried the WP-Post Views plugin?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postviews/

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[buddy_boy8403Participant Post count: 124]

I looked at it, but how would I get it in the byline via the functions.php without modifying core code?

[dev454Participant Post count: 5]

Is this what you are looking for?

I got code from 2 different places, marked in a comment above each section:

/** Post Views */

/** -- <a href="http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-track-popular-posts-by-views-in-wordpress-without-a-plugin/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-track-popular-posts-by-views-in-wordpress-without-a-plugin/</a> -- */
 function wpb_set_post_views($postID) {
 $count_key = 'wpb_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);
 }
 }
 //To keep the count accurate, lets get rid of prefetching
 remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);

function wpb_track_post_views ($post_id) {
 if ( !is_single() ) return;
 if ( empty ( $post_id) ) {
 global $post;
 $post_id = $post->ID;
 }
 wpb_set_post_views($post_id);
 }
 add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpb_track_post_views');

function wpb_get_post_views($postID){
 $count_key = 'wpb_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';
 }

/** Customize the post info function */
 /** -- <a href="http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-info/" rel="nofollow">http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-info/</a> -- */
 add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'post_info_filter' );
 function post_info_filter($post_info) {
 if ( !is_page() ) {
 $post_info = '[post_date] by [post_author_posts_link] [post_comments] ' . wpb_get_post_views(get_the_ID()) . ' [post_edit] ';
 return $post_info;
 }}

 

Sorry for formatting.

[buddy_boy8403Participant Post count: 124]

dev454 – This is exactly what I’m looking for.  The only problem is it’s counting 2 page views for each 1 visit.

[dev454Participant Post count: 5]

I’m using that code on a new test install (no plugins), and the metro child theme. I am only getting 1 page view per visit.

Maybe a caching plugin or some other plugin is calling the page or code twice for some reason.

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