Is there any way whatsoever to retain hit counter functionality with Facebook Instant Articles?
Like dropping some additional code or something. Because a lot of hits come from Facebook and the counter doesn’t register them so posts appear to be far less visited than they actually are.
Personally I have no problem hiding the hit counter, but our audience has gotten used to it so I’d like to keep it if possible.
Hi,
If you mean the view counter displayed in the post page, that will count only article views of the page on your website. It does not take into account post views in other places, or add them to the view count.
Thanks
That’s what I thought. Thanks.
Would it work with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages by any chance?
Hi,
There is a solution in this topic that you could try, to count both default post page views and AMP views
– https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/how-to-hook-hit-counter-into-amp-header/
Thanks
Thank you, I will try that.
Hi @menneskedyr , is Facebook Instant Articles working for you on this theme?
Yes, I got it working with no problems. I just followed Facebook’s instructions without having to do anything extra. There were some issues with image galleries in the first day or two, but it sorted itself out. I think tagDiv slide gallery wasn’t working, but regular galleries were.
(I have since stopped using it for other reasons and am now implementing Google’s AMP).
@menneskedyr appreciate your reply, did you get it working using the wordpress instant article plugin or direct rss method?
I used the plugin. First I signed up for IA, activated the plugin, claimed the URL, modified some styles and after three days my site was approved. It was really straightforward.
