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Count WordPress post views?

Are you looking to create a page/post view counter to track blog/website traffic?

The best way to do that is to display the number of views right in the page or post.

Step 1: Insert the following view count code and view count function in the functions.php file of the selected theme

<code>
function getPostViews($postID){ // hàm này dùng để lấy số người đã xem qua bài viết
    $count_key = 'post_views_count';
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==''){ // Nếu như lượt xem không có
        delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
        add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');
        return "0"; // giá trị trả về bằng 0
    }
    return $count; // Trả về giá trị lượt xem
}
function setPostViews($postID) {// hàm này dùng để set và update số lượt người xem bài viết.
    $count_key = 'post_views_count';
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==''){
        $count = 0;
        delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
        add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');
    }else{
        $count++; // cộng đồn view
        update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count); // update count
    }
}
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Step 2:  Paste the following snippet into the  single.php file  just below the  get_header() function ;

<?php setPostViews(get_the_ID()); ?>


Step 3: Insert the following code where you want to display

Here I will show it in the article details.

You open the single.php file again and find the code that displays the post meta: date, author, …

<?php echo getPostViews(get_the_ID()); ?>


Epilogue

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