Hi,
As we are now aware, once the Newspaper theme is installed, the post view counters are reset :/ we are also aware, that once the previous theme is deleted, all previous counts are deleted from the DB.
Now the question is, how can we manually/in bulk set some random view count values for the posts? I think having seen a way to insert view count values with ACF, but they are not incremental, are they?
What other option do you suggest?
Thanks!
Post view counters not reset on install, but use custom post meta field for views. Your existing view count field not removed. If you have existing view count field, simply put that field name in the view count includes file. We did this by changing theme field to our existing post meta field ‘views’ to increment existing field and keep existing reads.
Hi,
you can set ANY number of views manually to each post like so: http://screencast.com/t/Kx85pQWs The field is available from the start without any plugin. Just make sure you have it checked in the screen options.
Thank you!
Hi,
Thank you for the info! it totally helped. I thought the number set in the custom field would be static, not increasing with new counts 🙂
On the other hand, what/where can we modify in order to get the counter on the front-end (pages, blocks)?
just as here:
Thanks!
Hi,
The modules and blocks were never meant to show the post views. You can follow this topic to see how it can be coded in though: https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/post_views_count/
Thank you!
