Thank you, Adam!
Yesterday tried your way to comment out the “if (empty ($ views)) return;” – does not work, maybe it was necessary to wait for an update to the database from jetpack? But today came update your plugin, and after update – it worked! Posts, even without views, show the number of ‘0’.
But! plugin correctly displays the number ‘0’ only if use the shortcode “[view-count]” or so: <? php echo do_shortcode (‘[view-count]’); ?>, but if use the plugin so: <? php echo get_post_meta ($ post-> ID, ‘views’, true);?> – It still will not display the number “0”.
In any event – thanks a lot!