Tanya Chopra

<p>Content Layouts is a plugin that enhances the features of views of the content available on your site. It works with default post types of the WordPress alongwith the custom post types if there are any.</p>
<p>The plugin comes with a variety of layouts to showcase the content available on the site on the frontend. It works with the help of a block Content Layouts that is required to be added on a Page on the site to make it work.</p>
<p>Some key features of the GB block available with the plugin are-</p>
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<p>Provides various layouts to show content-</p>
<ol>
<li>Tiles</li>
<li>Grid</li>
<li>Single-line Scrollable</li>
<li>Double-line Scrollable</li>
<li>1-4 Posts Vertical Layout</li>
<li>1-4 Posts Horizontal Layout</li>
<li>Collapsible</li>
</ol>
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<p>The block consists of configurations for visibility settings for post date, post author and taxonomies.</p>
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<p>It automatically fetches the taxonomies attached to a post and displays it.</p>
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<p>Provides options to sort post data by title, date and selected posts order.</p>
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<p>Provides options to select posts from the editor to display of a particular post type.</p>
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<p>Provides options to select different kinds of paginations.</p>
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<p>Behaves in responsive manner.</p>
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<p>Works for custom post types as well.</p>
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Content Layouts

Content Layouts showcase different types of content types available in the system in different kinds of layouts.

Lester Chan

<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Open <code>wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php</code></li>
<li>You may place it in archive.php, single.php, post.php or page.php also.</li>
<li>Find: <code><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?></code></li>
<li>Add Anywhere Below It (The Place You Want The Views To Show): <code><?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?></code></li>
<li>Or you can use the shortcode <code>[views]</code> or <code>[views id="1"]</code> (where 1 is the post ID) in a post</li>
<li>Go to <code>WP-Admin -> Settings -> PostViews</code> to configure the plugin.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/" title="https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/lesterchan/wp-postviews/</a></p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p><a href="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/" title="http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/wp-postviews/i18n/</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plugin icon by <a href="http://www.icomoon.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Iconmoon</a> from <a href="http://www.flaticon.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Flaticon</a></li>
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<h3>Donations</h3>
<p>I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.</p>
<h3>Version 1.76.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Add Post Author in views template</li>
<li>NEW: Bump for WordPress 5.3</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.76</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Added postviews_should_count filter</li>
<li>FIXED: Change to (int) from intval() and use sanitize_key() with it.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.75</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Use WP_Query() for most/least viewed posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.74</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Bump WordPress 4.7</li>
<li>NEW: Template variable %POST_CATEGORY_ID%. It returns Post’s Category ID. If you are using Yoast SEO Plugin, it will return the priority Category ID. Props @FunFrog-BY</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.73</h3>
<ul>
<li>FIXED: In preview mode, don’t count views</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.72</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Add %POST_THUMBNAIL% to template variables</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.71</h3>
<ul>
<li>FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.70</h3>
<ul>
<li>FIXED: Integration with WP-Stats</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.69</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Shortcode <code>[views]</code> or [views id=”POST_ID”]` to embed view count into post</li>
<li>NEW: Added template variable <code>%VIEW_COUNT_ROUNDED%</code> to support rounded view count like 10.1k or 11.2M</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.68</h3>
<ul>
<li>NEW: Added action hook ‘postviews_increment_views’ and ‘postviews_increment_views_ajax’</li>
<li>NEW: Allow custom post type to be chosen under the widget</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.67</h3>
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<li>NEW: Allow user to not use AJAX to update the views even though WP_CACHE is true</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.66</h3>
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<li>NEW: Supports MultiSite Network Activation</li>
<li>NEW: Add %POST_DATE% and %POST_TIME% to template variables</li>
<li>NEW: Add China isearch engines bots</li>
<li>NEW: Ability to pass in an array of post types for get_most/least_*() functions. Props Leo Plaw.</li>
<li>FIXED: Moved uninstall to uninstall.php and hence fix missing nonce. Props Julio Potier.</li>
<li>FIXED: Notices and better way to get views from meta. Props daankortenbach.</li>
<li>FIXED: No longer needing add_post_meta() if update_post_meta() fails.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version 1.65 (02-06-2013)</h3>
<ul>
<li>FIXED: Views not showing in WP-Admin if “Display Options” is not set to “Display to everyone”</li>
</ul>


WP-PostViews

Now I can independently control the logic of counting! Like this:

function exclude_wp_post_views_count($should_count, $id) {
    if ( current_user_can('administrator') ) { // or other condition(s)
        $should_count = false;
    }
    return $should_count;
}
add_filter('postviews_should_count', 'exclude_wp_post_views_count', 10, 2);


Thanks for the filter 'postviews_should_count'!

Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.

Content Layouts vs WP-PostViews