Location of the hit counter variable setting

Hi folks! 🙂
I’m baaaack. Getting ready to migrate our news sites to the ‘modern’ version of NewsMag vs the ‘old’ mid-cycle version from couple years ago.

One thing we used to have to tweak in one of the old config files was the variable name for hit counter, which I think you had as ‘reads’ or ‘view’ — and we need to change that to pre-existing field ‘views’ since our sites pre-date TagDiv so that our ‘eyeballs’ line up and don’t reset to zero. 🙂

If you can let me know where to edit that variable in the files for current version as of Dec. 2020, would be super helpful.

Thanks! 🙂 ((no rush))

happy holidays!

Chris

Ha. Doh. Not as smart as I think I am. Totally blanked on looking in the plugin folder for that, as used to be part of the core booster files in early days of that (I was a beta for the booster plugin; and have not used bakery in years and years).

YES!! This was the value (based on the classic decade old WP-PostViews plugin we’ve used for over 10 years now as the original plugin for this):

static $post_view_counter_key = ‘post_views_count’;

static $post_view_counter_key = ‘views’;

Anyway, THAT was the hook I needed – thanks. 🙂

Chris 🙂

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!