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.

Samuel Aguilera

<p>A lot of people, like me, miss the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/" rel="ugc">WordPress.com Stats</a> standalone plugin and only wants this part of Jetpack.</p>
<p>This plugins completely <strong>prevent all modules in Jetpack from being loaded except for Stats and WP.me Shortlinks modules, this means that all other modules are not loaded by Jetpack in any way, saving memory and resources</strong> in your WordPress and leaving Jetpack only with the same features of <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/" rel="ugc">WordPress.com Stats</a> plugin that sadly was discontinued long time ago and replaced by Jetpack by WordPress.com</p>
<p>Current version of the plugin it’s pretty simple, it just uses a few filters provided by Jetpack, so it’s totally fail safe. Also nothing is saved to the database, so deactivating the plugin is enough to revert it effects.</p>
<p>GDPR Notice: The author of Jetpack Lite doesn’t collect ANY data. Also no data is saved in your site by Jetpack Lite.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically prevents Jetpack from loading any modules except for Stats and WP.me Shortlinks, saving system resources and cleaning the interface for modules that you don’t want to use.</li>
<li>Disables Jetpack’s Ads (aka “just in time messages”).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Jetpack.</li>
<li>WordPress version required by Jetpack.</li>
</ul>


Jetpack Lite

Make a simple mistake, pay for it with RTFM-style support trolling. Why not just use Google Analytics and spare yourself the trouble?



Rude, disrespectful "support"

Prevents Jetpack from loading any modules except for Stats and WP.me Shortlinks modules. Jetpack is required!

CodeFaeries Views Metrics vs Jetpack Lite