Removing the ( ) around count

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Found it (/includes/public/display-posts.php)

Instead of editing the files, please try this filter first that you can add to your theme’s functions.php

https://gist.github.com/ajaydsouza/9f04c26814414a57fab4

You’re right. Was just testing different customization options …

BTW, I have noticed that ajax is updating hourly, “on the clock” (Ajaxurl based, Transients API not enabled), can this be changed to for instance every 10 minutes?

Thx,

I’m confused on the ajax updating point.

OK, I’ll try to explain it a little better. My aim is to make the top ten list dynamic within a shorter time period. Could be 12 hours or so. The 12 hours is no problem with your fine plugin. What I see, though, is that +1 views are counted “now”, while “old” views are recalculated only every hour. So every hour I’ll have a drop of views instead of a more “floating” calculation of the views.

I was testing by having a 4-hour period. And on the hour (8:00, 9:00 etc) these drops was experienced. Therefore, but is of course dependent on whether the tables include minutes, I was wondering if the plugin was set so the ajax only requested newer than 4 hour views on the hour.
Hope it make better sense now.

Can you check if the cache is enabled in the settings page and if so disable this?

Yes, it is disabled (and has never been enabled).

I think I understand a bit better the issue. The plugin saves hits in the table only on an hourly basis. It used to be days earlier but many people requested more granularity. The issue with moving it to minutes means a lot more data saved in the tables.

I’m not sure if this is something that people are OK with. Potentially high traffic sites.

Is that what you’re looking for?

Thanks for your reply on this. I concluded exactly what you are pointing out. It is a tradeoff between the amount of data stored and the feeling of an active site. One idea however, could be to make an option for update every 15 minutes. This would quadruple the data in the table. Recommended for high traffic sites would then be NOT to count total views based on this table, and, at the same time having the 15 minutes table automatically cleaned for entries more than 48 hours old or the like.

That’s something I might implement in a future add on, but given the work involved, it is most likely going to be a paid one. …

Fair.