Sort by Post View Count

Thanks for your post.

If you used meta field for store post view count you can use that meta key under

Post query orderby > Meta value(Number)
And put the meta key under meta_key field

Please see the attachment

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You don;t need use meta query parameter

Regards

Thank you for your reply.

Still not working ??

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I’m trying to get it to work here – https://belt.life/test-popular-posts/

Guys you didn’t understand clearly.

i can see you put view_count in meta key field that should be different that provide 3rd party plugin.

you will need to use 3rd party plugin for view count that store “View count” under post meta field.

Regards

Ahh okay I think I understand. Do you have a plugin you would recommended?

Let me search for that.

Regards

Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. If you can find a plugin and then let me know which value to enter https://prntscr.com/em3enn I will be so happy! Thank you.

Hi, i haven’t found any plugin that store view count under post meta,

Please follow the step:

You need to add following code to your theme functions.php

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
add_action('wp_head','setPostViews');

function setPostViews() {
	
	if(is_singular()){
		
		$postID = get_the_id();
		
		$count_key = 'post_views_count';
		$count = (int)get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
		
		$count +=1; 
		update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);

		}
}

And then visit some of your post,
AT post grid settigns page as i told before please use post_views_count as meta_key

Please follow the screenshot

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you can also display this view count at post grid via layout editor

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Regards

Okay great! I hope this will work but actually when I add the code to functions.php I get an error.

This is all of the code from the functions.php child theme

<?php 

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_enqueue_assets' ); 

function my_enqueue_assets() { 

    wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css' ); 

}

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);
add_action('wp_head','setPostViews');

function setPostViews() {
        
        if(is_singular()){
                
                $postID = get_the_id();
                
                $count_key = 'post_views_count';
                $count = (int)get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
                
                $count +=1; 
                update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);

                }
}

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Ohh wait! I added it to the parent theme and it’s working!!

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Glad to see that help you.

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Already did! ??

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