Long Watch Studio - Code Faeries

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.
Works with or without WooCommerce – 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.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Universal Tracking – Works with posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and any custom post type</li>
<li>Dashboard Widget – At-a-glance statistics with interactive chart on WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Gutenberg Blocks – Post Views and Most Viewed Posts blocks for the block editor</li>
<li>Most Viewed Posts Widget – Sidebar widget to display popular content</li>
<li>Smart Exclusions – Exclude crawlers, AI bots, logged-in users, guests, specific roles, categories, or individual posts</li>
<li>Flexible Display – Show counters before content, after content, or manually via shortcode with customizable text</li>
<li>Role-Based Visibility – Control which user roles can see view counters</li>
<li>Role-Based Counting – Exclude specific roles from being counted (admins and shop managers by default)</li>
<li>Performance Optimized – Multiple tracking methods (PHP, JavaScript, REST API) including async modes for cached sites</li>
<li>WooCommerce Integration – Sort products by most viewed on shop pages</li>
<li>Quick/Bulk Edit – Manually adjust view counts directly from admin lists</li>
<li>Import Tool – Migrate view data from WP-PostViews or other plugins</li>
<li>GDPR Compliant – IP anonymization options and privacy policy snippet</li>
<li>Developer Friendly – Clean, well-documented code with filters and hooks</li>
<li>Admin Integration – View counts in post/product listing pages with sorting</li>
<li>Real-Time Statistics – Dashboard showing total, today, yesterday, weekly, and monthly views</li>
</ul>
<h3>Third-Party Libraries</h3>
This plugin uses the following third-party libraries:
<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.

Gennady Kovshenin

Pressjitsu

Pageviews is a simple and lightweight views counter for your WordPress posts and pages. It is based on JavaScript and is compatible with all caching plugins, proxies and complex setups. Pageviews works with a hosted processing service, and performs extremely well under high-traffic and on sites with large amounts of content.
Don’t start from scratch! Import existing numbers from Google Analytics and other services with <a href="https://pageviews.io/sync/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pageviews Sync</a>.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display the number of times a post or page has been viewed</li>
<li>Works on high-traffic websites with zero impact on performance</li>
<li>Includes useful hooks and APIs for seamless integration into third-party themes</li>
<li>Compatible with caching plugins, proxies and application firewalls</li>
</ul>
More information on <a href="https://pageviews.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Pageviews.io</a>.
If you need any setup assistance or help migrating your existing views counts from other plugins or services please reach out to us <a href="https://pageviews.io/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">via e-mail</a>, or open a new thread in the WordPress.org support forums. For best performance Pageviews uses an external service to collect and process numbers. Visit our <a href="https://pageviews.io/tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of service</a> and <a href="https://pageviews.io/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy policy</a> for more details.

Pageviews

Simple to integrate, easy to use. No settings page is awesome.

Simple and functional

A simple and lightweight pageviews counter for your WordPress posts and pages.

CodeFaeries Views Metrics vs Pageviews