REQ: Post read X times counter

I have run into a potential… shall we say snag in this hack. I am not sure but I think that I am getting infalted results from search engine spiders.
Some of my posts are at around 150+ views in 1 – 2 days, while some are still at 0 or 1 -3. I actually get a decent amount of traffic, but I wouldn’t think I am getting that much on just one or two posts.
I am going to look at hacking in some spider-handling to this, and I will let you guys know what happens.
Chris

I haven’t made any changes to get this working properly, but I want to point out that you should also put a IP tracker in it, so that refreshing the page doesn’t add to the count.
Just a thought.

This is a pageview counter. If you really want a unique-views counter, you’ll want to take something like the refererLib stuff, extend it to allow null referers, and verify that a given IP with a blank referral and a given post page aren’t in the last say 24h of entries.
I’ve noticed my post count goes up weirdly while I’m editing draft/private posts. Now, I am using my own ‘variation’ on this theme, but it uses the same basic thought process. It also has a bail-out check for admin users (which should mean no accessing I do should ever cause a read-hit…). I think there’s something wacky, maybe my field is somehow set to autoincr or something like that.. hmnm….
-d
https://www.chait.net

Call me nit picky or something, but I think using the referrerLib is probably better for getting a more accurate count. What’s the point of putting a count out, if you can’t make it as accurate as possible.
Now, I can see were having the count shoot up like a Saturn V rocket would help a person’s ego, but I prefer to get a more realistic view of who’s checking out my posts.
Thanks for the work David, I look forward to the updated version to try out.

i really dont understand what im doing wrong… ??

i followed every step , the obly changes i made was changing the table name to wp_mostAccessed , and changed every time i saw mostAccessed to wp_table mostAccessed…

But nothing is showing…not even errors! . . . the code to show how many time the “read more” is suposto to be :

<?php show_post_count($post->ID, $before=”(Visited “, $after=” times)”); ?>

right?

i put it , and its supost to appear after the :

“by Prim3r”
the website is here :

https://www.prim3r.nextdesigns.net/

btw , i chech the table on mysqladmin and its empty….

Do you have this line:
<?php if ($single) { add_count($post->ID); } ?>
right underneath this line:
`<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>’
in your main template ?

yes like this :

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php if ($single) { add_count($post->ID); } ?>

…..

and where is supost to show is like this :

<?php comments_popup_link(‘Leave a Comment ‘, ‘1 Comment ‘, ‘% Comments ‘); ?><br><?php show_post_count($post->ID, $before=”(Visited “, $after=” times)”); ?></div><div class=”clear”></div>

maybe the error is on database…?

I have this:
<?php if (function_exists('show_post_count')) show_post_count($post->ID, $before="Read (", $after=")"); ?>
so it could be… the table is still empty in the database ?

right now im getting conection is refused…some isp problem i guess ??

that code is diferent…maybe i should copy it and past over my code…?

if not…mabye creating a temp admin acount if anyone want to help.

onme question a little of topic :

all my tables begin with : wp_

so this one should have the same before the name right?…

no – mine is just called ‘mostAccessed’ too..

Are you using the plugin ?
https://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/03/14/top-10-plugin/

im just folowing this steps :

https://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/top10posts.txt

ok . . . its no use!

I activated the plug in i put the code :

<?php if($id > 0) { add_count($id);} ?>

after the : <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

and to appear :

<?php comments_popup_link(‘Leave a Comment ‘, ‘1 Comment ‘, ‘% Comments ‘); ?><br><?php show_post_count($post->ID, $before=”(Visited “, $after=” times)”); ?>

the result is…nothing! nothing appear on website ??