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>
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<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.

WPDO

Add the slack style emoji to posts, pages or comments.
<h4>Features:</h4>
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React with emojis to any post or comment.
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Post View counter. Compatible with all cache plugins! Easy to use. Automatically exclude bots.
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Disable comment on any post type (pages, posts, attachments).
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Most Viewed widget. Recent Reacted Emoji Post widget.
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Allow guests reaction or logged-in user reaction only.
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GDPR compliant. With this feature turned on, all logged IPs get obfuscated (md5-hashed).
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<h4>Post View</h4>
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<li>
Edit <code>wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME>/index.php</code> or <code>archive.php</code>/<code>single.php</code>/<code>post.php</code>/<code>page.php</code>.
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In the loop <code>while ( have_posts() ) {</code> or anywhere you want to show the views, add the following codes: <code>do_action( 'remoji_postview' );</code>.
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</ol>
API
To show postview in themes/plugins, use <code>do_action( 'remoji_postview', $the_post_id_to_inquire );</code>.
Shortcode [views] available
Use <code>[views]</code> or <code>[views id="3"]</code>(To show the views of post ID 3) in your editor.

Remoji – Post/Comment Reaction and Enhancement

I like this because it allows one to react in many different ways in posts and comments. And it looks nice and doesn't take up a lot of space. One issue though is if you turn on IP privacy, someone is able to react repeatedly. If improvements are considered, then I suggest the following:

1) Add an option to track by logged in user, and also that would mean only people logged in can use it.
2) That would solve the reacting over and over again but for those would want to allow visitors to react then there would have to be another way to prevent excessive reacting. Or, at least a warning that if you turn on IP obfuscation then people will be able to react over and over. 
3) I hope you can one day add the ability to delete reactions.
4) A widget showing most reacted posts would be cool too.

Very nice

Reactive emoji. Allow visitors to add emoji reactions to your posts and comments. Disable comment for pages, posts.

CodeFaeries Views Metrics vs Remoji – Post/Comment Reaction and Enhancement