Long Watch Studio - Code Faeries

<p>CodeFaeries Views Metrics provides comprehensive view tracking for any post type including posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and custom post types. Built with clean, modern code architecture and extensive customization options.</p>
<p><strong>Works with or without WooCommerce</strong> – This plugin is fully functional for any WordPress site, whether you use WooCommerce or not. WooCommerce integration is completely optional and provides bonus features when available.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Universal Tracking</strong> – Works with posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and any custom post type</li>
<li><strong>Dashboard Widget</strong> – At-a-glance statistics with interactive chart on WordPress dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg Blocks</strong> – Post Views and Most Viewed Posts blocks for the block editor</li>
<li><strong>Most Viewed Posts Widget</strong> – Sidebar widget to display popular content</li>
<li><strong>Smart Exclusions</strong> – Exclude crawlers, AI bots, logged-in users, guests, specific roles, categories, or individual posts</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Display</strong> – Show counters before content, after content, or manually via shortcode with customizable text</li>
<li><strong>Role-Based Visibility</strong> – Control which user roles can see view counters</li>
<li><strong>Role-Based Counting</strong> – Exclude specific roles from being counted (admins and shop managers by default)</li>
<li><strong>Performance Optimized</strong> – Multiple tracking methods (PHP, JavaScript, REST API) including async modes for cached sites</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Integration</strong> – Sort products by most viewed on shop pages</li>
<li><strong>Quick/Bulk Edit</strong> – Manually adjust view counts directly from admin lists</li>
<li><strong>Import Tool</strong> – Migrate view data from WP-PostViews or other plugins</li>
<li><strong>GDPR Compliant</strong> – IP anonymization options and privacy policy snippet</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong> – Clean, well-documented code with filters and hooks</li>
<li><strong>Admin Integration</strong> – View counts in post/product listing pages with sorting</li>
<li><strong>Real-Time Statistics</strong> – Dashboard showing total, today, yesterday, weekly, and monthly views</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
<p>This plugin uses the following third-party libraries:</p>
<h4>Chart.js</h4>
<ul>
<li>License: MIT License — https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://github.com/chartjs/Chart.js</li>
<li>Version: 4.5.0</li>
<li>Usage: renders interactive charts in the admin dashboard widget and the post-list column chart modal.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Select2</h4>
<ul>
<li>License: MIT License — https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT</li>
<li>Source: https://github.com/select2/select2</li>
<li>Version: 4.0.13</li>
<li>Usage: enhances the searchable dropdowns on the plugin settings page.</li>
</ul>


CodeFaeries Views Metrics

Lightweight post and product views tracking with dashboard stats, Gutenberg blocks, and smart exclusions.

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<p>Plugin counts posts views (hits) by using external AJAX based counter script of this plugin, which is best solution for caching whole page or using other cache plugins.<br />
Plugin also include widget “Popular Posts” for displaying popular posts (based on hits count) with different visibility settings and using predefined placeholders, such as <code>{post_id}</code>, <code>{post_title}</code>, <code>{post_title_N}</code>, <code>{post_excerpt_N}</code>, <code>{post_author}</code>, <code>{post_author_link}</code>, <code>{permalink}</code>, <code>{post_date}</code>, <code>{thumbnail-[medium|...|64x64]}</code>, <code>{post_categories}</code>, <code>{post_hits}</code> and <code>{post_comments_count}</code>.</p>
<p>You can show hits count in Posts/Pages Loop simply adding this line: <code><?php echo(ajax_hits_counter_get_hits(get_the_ID())); ?></code> or equivalent <code><?= ajax_hits_counter_get_hits(get_the_ID()) ?></code><br />
Or you can use this shortcode: <code>[hits]</code>.<br />
Plugin also have JavaScript-callback function (on client) for “success” (<code>ajaxHitsCounterSuccessCallback(xhr)</code>) and for “failed” (<code>ajaxHitsCounterFailedCallback(xhr)</code>) result status of hits incrementation.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>AJAX based counter ignores most bots/crawlers</li>
<li>Ability to reset the counter to any number any time</li>
<li>Plugin not require using any third party code and/or JavaScript-frameworks</li>
<li>Sortable admin column</li>
<li>Can be shown anywhere on the site using “Popular Posts Widget”, shortcode <code>[hits]</code>, php-code <code><?= ajax_hits_counter_get_hits(get_the_ID()) ?></code></li>
<li>Data import from WP-PostViews (“Tools”->”Import”)</li>
<li>W3 Cache/WP SuperCache compatible</li>
<li>Excluding counts from administrators</li>
</ul>


AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget

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