WP Post Views is a lightweight and efficient plugin to track and display post views in WordPress.

Brijesh Dhanani

Piyush Asthana

Ronak J Vanpariya

Kajal Gohel

Ankita Tanti

<p>WP Post Views counts the views of your built-in post types (Posts, Pages) and Custom Post Types. It provides multiple ways to display these counts, including a modern Gutenberg block, shortcodes, and PHP functions.</p>
<h3>Features And Options:</h3>
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<li><strong>Simple & Easy:</strong> Designed to be simple and easy to understand for everyone.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Block:</strong> A dedicated “Post Views” block for easy placement in your layouts.</li>
<li><strong>IP Filtering:</strong> Option to filter views by IP address to ensure accurate counts.</li>
<li><strong>Post Type Support:</strong> Choose which post types to track in the settings.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Column:</strong> View counts directly in your post/page lists in the admin dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Performance:</strong> Optimized queries and transient caching for total view counts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Display Post Views:</h3>
<p><strong>1. Gutenberg Block</strong><br />
Search for the “Post Views” block in the editor.</p>
<p><strong>2. Shortcodes</strong><br />
– <code>[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS]</code>: Display the view count for the current post.<br />
– <code>[WPPV-TOTAL-VIEWS-PER-POST-TYPE post_type="post"]</code>: Display total views for a specific post type.</p>
<p><strong>3. PHP Function</strong>
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<h3>Tutorial</h3>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/11NH5xOBs68?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Development</h3>
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<li>Development happening on GitHub :- <a href="https://github.com/vanpariyar/wp-post-views" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Post Views Github</a></li>
<li>Create issue on the GitHub OR Pull request for new feature when new tag added it will automatically deployed.</li>
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Wp Post Views – WordPress Post views counter


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The "Wp Post Views" plugin is incredibly easy to use and offers all the basic features you need to monitor the views of your WordPress posts. There's nothing superfluous in this plugin - just the essential functions to track visits to your content.



I'm really happy to have found the "Wp Post Views" plugin. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a simple and effective way to track views of their WordPress content. Thank you so much for creating this plugin!


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