Hi
Since I migrated from Blogger to WordPress I lost the view count on my posts – can you recommend a way to override the post view count per post in the DB or something like that ?
(I saw the below link and I am not sure it’s the way to go, any way – I’d prefer a method that would work across all wordpress themes in case I want to switch to another theme in the future or something like that…)
https://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/
hi,
what you found is a plugin that you can use to store your own post counts and not let wordpress handles this part.
I think wordpress keeps those counts in wp_postmeta table in the database,as an serilizes php array ( http://screencast.com/t/WMZqNm6EQ2) , wordpress has API functionality that retrieve this info. probably you can increase the counts by creating a custom php script that can take each post from the wp_post table, get the serialized array, modify what you want, then put the array back in the wp_postmeta table. probably will work.
Thanks for you message.
Radu A.
