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@icetechy

Are you using the Gutenberg editor on your site or the classic editor ?

I am using classic editor and elemento.

Hi you never got back to me. Please how can I get the shortcode to display total views?

Hi I also wanted to add that we should be able to use your plugin as widgets on elementor and we should also have the ability to change the icons. this upgrade is crucial to meet up to todays standard of plugins:

1. Shortcode
2. Widgets e.g elementor widget
3. Icon change. (I will like to have the eye ball icon instead for instance)

Thank you

@icetechy

It seems that what you are asking for is that we add compatibility with the Elementor Templating system. To add a Page View Counter to an Elementor template requires a shortcode or a Elementor Compatible Widget.

Page Views count in fact is ‘today’s standards’ for WordPress.

* WordPress new Gutenberg editor was released in December 2018
* That same month we Released v 2.1.0 which had the PVC Gutenberg block. Here is part of that changelog

= 2.1.0 – 2018/12/14 =
* This feature upgrade ports Page View Count editor meta to Page Views Gutenberg block. Full compatibility with WP 5.0.1, 4.9.9 and the Classic editor.
* Feature – Add Dynamic Page Views Block for Gutenberg. Admin can use block to show anywhere in post content. When insert the block it auto deactivates global show PVC at top or bottom of that post.
* Tweak – Global PVC metabox that shows on editor sidebar works with both Gutenberg and Classic Editor

In September 2019 we completely rewrote the Plugin PHP to use the newest PHP code recommendations being Composer PHP dependency manager – here is the changelog for that.

= 2.2.0 – 2019/09/12 =
* This feature upgrade is a full refactor of the plugins PHP to PHP dependency manager Composer with autoloading.
* Feature – Plugin fully refactored to Composer for cleaner code and faster PHP code

As it happens we have had adding compatibility for ELementor with a shortcode and a widget on the plugins roadmap since late last year.

Your idea about being able to set an eye icon instead of the graph is a neat suggestion and we have included it in the upcoming release. We have not and will not add a font icon script like fontawesome as it would mean the loading of an extra external JS with each page load. Good to avoid doing that – The icon that loads now is svg format – which is very good in that it is actually code and not an image that has to be downloaded by the browser.

We are currently working on the Feature Release Version 2.3.0

The features in this new version include

* Counter View Types – Option to just show ## Total Views – not show ## Views Today
* PVC Shortcode – Shortcode will include these Parameters
[pvc_stats postid=”” increase=”1″ show_views_today=”1″]

postid=”” Post/Page ID want to show stats, leave empty for use ID of current post.

increase=”” (1|0)
1: increase count and show stats.
0: show stats only without increase count.

show_views_today=”” (1|0)
1: show Views Today.
0: hide Views Today.
* PVC Widget has the same parameters
* Add new Counter eye icon option
* Tested for full compatibility with elementor template editor.

We have built it and are now in the review/update/test phase of the release. We are aiming for release of version 2.3.0 early next week.

Thanks for your feedback – Steve

Hello @icetechy

Page View Count new feature version 2.3.0 is out. The changelog is below. 100% compatible with Elementor Templates, add by shortcode or widget plus a new eye icon. I will change the status of this ticket to ‘resolved’ – you can still reply if you wish.

Steve

= 2.3.0 – 2020/03/10 =
This feature release contains, new PVC shortcode, new PVC Widget, option to only show total views, a new eye icon option, full compatibility with Elementor Templates, completion of PHP Composer refactor and 4 PHP fixes for compatibility with PHP v 7.0 to 7.4.
Feature – Add new PVC shortcode [pvc_stats postid=”” increase=”1″ show_views_today=”1″]
Feature – Add new PVC widget
Feature – Add new Counter Icon eye option
Feature – Add Counter Views Type option: Default is ## Total Views, ## Views Today, Option is ## Total Views (hide Views Today)
Feature – Plugin Framework fully refactored to Composer for cleaner code and faster PHP code
Feature – Full compatibility with Elementor Templates
Tweak – Conter Position and Style Options box, added Counter Views Type option
Tweak – Counter Position and Style Options box, added new Counter Icon eye option
Tweak – Added new + Page Views Count Shortcode options box with shortcode and parameters
Tweak – Update plugin for compatibility with new version of plugin Framework
Tweak – Tested for compatibility with WordPress v 5.3.2
Fix – Update global ${$this- to $GLOBALS[$this to resolve 7.0+ PHP warnings
Fix – Update global ${$option to $GLOBALS[$option to resolve 7.0+ PHP warnings
Fix – Update less PHP lib that use square brackets [] instead of curly braces {} for Array , depreciated in PHP 7.4
Fix – Validate for not use get_magic_quotes_gpc function for PHP 7.4