The Piggly Views WordPress Plugin allows you to track views for each post. Once you…

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<p>The plugin is quite simple to use. See below.</p>
<ol>
<li>It will store all views for a Single Post. You can configure it to ignore views to logged users and disable for some posts.</li>
<li>In the Posts View Table you will see the View column. You can remove it in configurations.</li>
<li>All views will be cached for 24 hours. You can disabled it or change the flush cache hour.</li>
</ol>
<p>For now, Piggly Views is available in:</p>
<ul>
<li>English,</li>
<li>Portuguese Brazilian.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Some additional resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>You can use the shortcode <code>[piggly_views]</code> to get views to the current post OR use <code>[piggly_views id="post_id"]</code> to a specific post. It will return the number of views following the format set in the settings.</li>
<li>You can get a collection of most viewed posts by using the method <code>piggly_view_collection($limit,$days)</code>. Where <code>$days</code> is the range between NOW and X(<code>$days</code>) days, <code>$limit</code> is the number of posts  and <code>$types</code> is one or more post types slug into an array, such as: <code>post</code>, <code>page</code> or <code>attachment</code>.</li>
<li>You can use the shortcode <code>[piggly_views_collection limit="X" days="X" types="post, page, attachment"]</code> to get a collection of most viewed posts returning the default template.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Getting the most viewed posts</h3>
<p>An easy way to get the most viewed posts is using the global function <code>piggly_view_collection()</code>. The default <code>$days</code> values is 30, default <code>$limit</code> value is 5 and default <code>$types</code> array is post.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>// 10 most viewed posts in the last 180 days.<br />
  $most_viewed = piggly_view_collection( 10, 180 );</p>
<p>if ( !empty( $most_viewed ) ) :<br />
      foreach ( $most_viewed as $post ) :<br />
          $postID = $post->post_id;<br />
     endforeach;<br />
  endif;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In the other side, you can use the shortcode <code>[piggly_views_collection limit="10" days="180" types="post"]</code> to return the default template.</p>
<p>When you use <code>[piggly_views_collection]</code> shortcode, it will return the following template for each post. Customize CSS as your needs by using <code>.pgl-views-post</code> as parent.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="{{link}}" title="{{title}}" rel="bookmark nofollow ugc"></a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>><br />
>   </p>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>>       </p>
<h3>{{title}}</h3>
<p>><br />
>           {{category}}<br />
>           {{author}}<br />
>           {{date}}<br />
><br />
>   </p>
<blockquote>
</blockquote>
<h3>How to Use</h3>
<p>From your WordPress administration panel go to <code>Plugins > Installed Plugins</code> and scroll down until you find <code>Piggly Views</code>. You will need to activate it first, then click on <code>Settings</code> to configure it.</p>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display or not View Column in Post Table.</li>
<li>Disable tracking for Logged Users.</li>
<li>Convert Views from 1000 to 1K format.</li>
<li>Cache Views Data.</li>
<li>
<p>Flush cache after X hours.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Keep options and/or table when uninstall the plugin.</p>
</li>
</ul>


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