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><a href="http://jetpack.me/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> is an awesome plugin bundle provided by the Automattic, but it requires WordPress.com account<br />
even for those modules previously work as independent plugins. The marketing banners are very obtrusive too.</p>
<p>I smashed the bundle to remove the annoying parts and keep the awesomeness. Slim Jetpack will track the updates of Jetpack modules,<br />
but is definitely INCOMPATIBLE with its original version because a lot of API functions had been mocked or removed.</p>
<p>All credit goes to original developers @<br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jetpack/developers/" rel="ugc">Jetpack</a>!</p>
<p>SlimJetpack 2.1.1.x is corresponding to Jetpack 2.1.1 and the x is the bugfix mark.</p>
<p>If you find any bug, please submit a ticket here: https://github.com/HowardMei/slimjetpack/issues<br />
Or just fork the repository and send me pull requests 😉</p>
<p>Please deactivate Slim Jetpack and use the original Jetpack instead if you need the wordpress.com likes/stats,<br />
subscription and push notification services etc.,</p>
<h3>Modules Included</h3>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful Math</li>
<li>Carousel</li>
<li>Contact Form</li>
<li>Custom CSS</li>
<li>Extra Sidebar Widgets</li>
<li>Gravatar Hovercards</li>
<li>Holiday Snow (Put back since v2.4.2)</li>
<li>Infinite Scroll</li>
<li>Minileven Mobile Theme</li>
<li>Omnisearch</li>
<li>Sharing</li>
<li>Spelling and Grammar (Partly Available)</li>
<li>Tiled Galleries (Partly Available)</li>
<li>Widget Visibility (New from v2.4.2)</li>
<li>WordPress.com Connect (New from v2.4.2)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Modules Removed</h3>
<ul>
<li>Photon (Supported) </li>
<li>WordPress.com Stats</li>
<li>Wp.me shortlinks</li>
<li>Publicize</li>
<li>Notifications</li>
<li>Google+ Profile</li>
<li>VideoPress</li>
<li>Jetpack Comments</li>
<li>Likes</li>
<li>Subscriptions</li>
<li>Post by Email</li>
<li>VaultPress</li>
<li>JSON API</li>
<li>Mobile Push Notifications</li>
<li>Enhanced Distribution</li>
</ul>
<h3>Original Jetpack Changelog</h3>
<h4>2.7</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: Google+ Publicize</li>
<li>Enhancement: Add Cloudup as an oEmbed provider</li>
<li>Enhancement: Subscriptions: Add subscribe_field_id filter to allow updated ids when using multiple widgets</li>
<li>Enhancement: Infinite Scroll: TwentyFourteen Support</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Contact Form: Fix warning when form is called outside the loop</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Featured Content: Moving Settings to Customizer, provide option to set default tag as fallback, specify all supported post-types rather than just additional ones. Description Updates</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Featured Content: Compat with ‘additional_post_types’ theme support argument. Comment updates</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Featured Content: Make sure $term is an object before we treat it as one</li>
<li>Bug Fix: GlotPress: Merge with latest GlotPress</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: prevent Undefined index notice that can cause IS to fail when user has WP_DEBUG set to true</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Infinite Scroll: Improved compatibility with Carousel, Tiled Galleries, VideoPress, and the <code>[audio]</code> and <code>[video]</code> shortcodes</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Likes: Stop manually including version.php and trust the global. Some whitespace fixes, and if it’s an attachment, follow the post_status of the parent post</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: Display password field for Gallery format protected posts</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Sharing: Add new translation width for share button, and Google Plus icons</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Support Ineternational Google domains for maps</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Shortcodes: Facebook Embeds: Register alternate permalink.php URL for posts</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Subscriptions: Moved inline styles from widget email input to seperate css file</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Theme Tools: Fix glitch where random-redirect.php also showed as a plugin being deleted if you were deleting Jetpack</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Misc: Internationalization & RTL updates</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Misc: Prevent collisions with ‘Facebook Featured Image & OG Meta Tags’ plugin</li>
</ul>
<h4>2.6.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug Fix: minor styling fix in pre- and post-MP6/3.8 UI changes.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Stats: spinner gif url fix when the user is viewing it over https.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Stats: Switch to esc_html from htmlspecialchars in error message — better to be native</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Media Extractor: some hosts don’t compile unicode for preg_match_all, so we temporarily removed the block that depended on it.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Media Extractor: Add in some error handling for malformed URLs.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Twitter Cards: treat single-image galleries as a photo-type.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Update conflicting plugins for OG tags and Twitter Cards.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Correct max supported version number — had been 3.6, update to 3.7.1</li>
</ul>
<h4>2.6</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enhancement: WPCC / now called <a href="http://jetpack.me/support/sso/" rel="nofollow ugc">SSO</a>: refactored.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Monitor: new module which will notify you if your site goes down(http://jetpack.me/support/monitor/).</li>
<li>Enhancement: Custom CSS: replace Ace editor with Codemirror.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Widgets: new ??Display Posts?? widget.</li>
<li>Enhancement: WP-CLI: add commands to disconnect a site and manage modules.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Contact Form: new filters, <code>grunion_contact_form_field_html</code> and <code>grunion_should_send_email</code>.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Custom Post Types: new restaurant post type.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Genericons: update to version 3.0.2.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Infinite Scroll: many improvements and fixes.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Likes: performance improvements.</li>
<li>Enhancement: MP6: Jetpack icons are now compatible with WordPress 3.8.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Open Graph: better descriptions, fallback images, and media extraction from video posts.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Publicize: new background token tests for connected publicize services and display problems on settings sharing and add new post.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Shortcodes: updated Bandcamp shortcode to support the <code>tracklist</code> and <code>minimal</code> attributes, as well as more <code>artwork</code> attribute values.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Shortlinks: add Custom Post Type support.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Subscriptions: add more ways to customize the subscriptions widget.</li>
<li>Enhancement: Twitter Cards: better media management and card type detection, and better handling of conflicts with other Twitter Cards plugins.</li>
<li>Enhancement: better handling of conflicts with other plugins.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: After the Deadline: add a typeof check for <code>tinyMCEPreInit.mceInit</code> to prevent js errors.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Carousel: speed improvements and several bugfixes.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Contact Form: remove nonce creating issues with caching plugins.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Custom Post Types: Testimonials: return if featured image is empty so it can be removed after it??s been set.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Featured Content: add additional post type support through the <code>additional_post_types</code> argument.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Google Authorship: support apostrophes in Google+ profiles.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Google Authorship: use a regexp Instead of using <code>mb_convert_encoding</code>, which doesn??t enjoy universal support.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Heartbeat: ensure that it never triggers more than once per week.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: JSON API: add new <code>?meta=</code> parameter that allows you to expand the data found in the <code>meta->links</code> responses.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: JSON API: add new <code>is_private</code> response to the sites endpoint and <code>global_ID</code> response to the reader and post endpoints.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: allow small images to display inline.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Mobile Theme: fix fatal errors for missing <code>minileven_header</code> function.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Photon: fix errors when an image is not uploaded properly.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Shortcodes: improvements to Archives, Google+, Presentations, Vine and Youtube.</li>
<li>Bug Fix: Tiled Galleries: improve display of panoramic images and fix errors when an image is not uploaded properly.</li>
</ul>


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