Views count

Hi there,

What do you mean by “smarter”? Please try being more specific.

I mean like unique visitors.. not every time you refresh a page.. I want it to count by ip or stuff..

I see. Well, technically it’s possible of course. However, this is something specialized tools such as Google Analytics already do since a very long time now – why would you need this feature on a WordPress plugin? Just curious to know.

Sure i’ll tell you:

I have a list of posts, which I want visitors to know the number of views for their posts.

also, I need the popular posts to be more authentic, and to avoid cases that people will refresh the page alot and it will change the views count to 1 milion..

I really think you should make it default function in your next release..

However.. I’ll be really glad if you can solve it for me right away.

Thank you,

Gal.

… to avoid cases that people will refresh the page alot and it will change the views count to 1 milion.

Well, this is something you simply won’t be able to prevent. One way or another, a determined person will still find a way to increment the views count (proxies, different computers, automated scripts, etc.). Cheaters will cheat, no matter what you do.

For the reason stated above, I don’t believe this would be worth the effort. However, I won’t dismiss the idea just yet.

But can you give me some solution to prevent normal people from doing it?

At the moment, no, I can’t my friend. In its current form, the plugin just cannot prevent these kind of things.

If you really, really need a quick solution then I suggest Google Analytics: it already does what you need.

But i cant plug analytics in my web, can i?

Here’s a tutorial, just in case you don’t know how to implement Google Analytics on your site. It’s fairly simple, give it a try.

No man..

I dont want to know.. i want my visitors to know..

In that case, it can’t be done. I’m sorry.

there isnt any code to do that? its wierd..

The feature you ask can’t be done with a simple modification to the plugin. It also requires a different DB table structure and changes to the queries as well. There’s no “code” for that since the plugin would require major changes for this. It’s just not that simple.