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.

Jonathan Daggerhart

This plugin lets you create new WP queries as widgets and use shortcodes for queries on your pages. It also allows you to override the way category and tag pages display.
Query Wrangler’s interface is highly intuitive way to create queries and will be second nature for any Drupal Views user.
This plugin will bring extreme flexibility to WordPress users with its ability to create custom queries using the WP_Query class with a user interface.
Supports:
<ul>
<li>Most post data, including meta fields</li>
<li>Taxonomy data</li>
<li>Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Custom Content Type Manager</li>
<li>Some exposed filters</li>
</ul>
Some examples of how you would use this plugin include:
<ul>
<li>Create a list posts with featured images</li>
<li>Create a list of pages or posts within a specific category or tag</li>
<li>Create an image gallery</li>
<li>Modify the way your category pages look</li>
</ul>

Query Wrangler

Query Wrangler provides an intuitive interface for creating complex WP queries as shortcodes and widgets. UI based on Drupal Views.

CodeFaeries Views Metrics vs Query Wrangler