Single Post Views excessive

Hello – can you advise on correcting Single Post Views numbers? For example, this article, posted at 14:24 BST today immediately showed 1700+ views.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/07/08/new-releases-june-july-2025-a-b/

I have WP Super Cache installed and have enabled Ajax Post View count in Theme Panel. I deleted cached pages in WP Super Cache. Still I see 1700+ views, “acquired” in 15 minutes.

I must be missing something.

In the element settings I have tried both “WP-PostViews plugin” and “Theme Post Views” as post views source. No difference.

Thanks
Mark

• This topic was modified 1 year by Mark Gilbert.

I don’t work here, but suggestions:
a) make sure you have stuff disabled that get pinged by bots all day long (XMLRPC etc.)
b) make sure not running [2] hit counters at once, as you instantly double all “hits.” (Easy to test, go to page, and hit reload, see if you get 2 hits or just 1, on an older page.) Check the custom fields for a post, to see if more than one data field setup for ‘hits’ like from old plugin and new one/theme.

Thanks – but it’s not just duplication. The article published with over 1700 views. It showed 1700 in WP admin even in draft.

Hi Calin – it’s certainly adding new views each time you go to the page. The point is, it’s was showing 1700+ at publication, even in draft. I’m not sure you’ve understood that.

Ah – now I see the source of the problem. I have been cloning existing articles as template for new articles and this carries over the post view figure! Ridiculous. Anyone know how to zero the post view count?

Wow – that’s very helpful, Simion. I didn’t know that field existed and zeroed the counts on my cloned posts in the database as advised in a Google AI search – a much longer process!

Many thanks

MG