Display your most popular posts using Jetpack stats.
NOTICE: I am no longer maintaining this plugin. Jetpack does not provide the necessary functionality to reliably and easily update post views for more than 500 posts. I am tired of trying to hack a solution that ultimately doesn’t work. If anyone wants to continue to maintain the plugin feel free to download the code.
A plugin that displays your most popular posts using Jetpack stats.
Jetpack Post Views is a plugin that lets you integrate Jetpack stats into your site. Jetpack is a great plugin that lets you track information about your blog, but it doesn’t give you access to this information so you can display it to your visitors. The most common information users wish to have access to are the number of views for a post.
Jetpack Post Views gives you access to this information. This plugin adds a widget that lets you display your top posts by views according to Jetpack stats. As an added bonus, this plugin adds this information to the post meta of each post, allowing you to display those stats anywhere on your site.
a
jetpack-post-views.php
to the /wp-content/plugins/
directoryNOTE: If the plugin does not work, go to the settings page and try entering in your WordPress API Key.
To find your API key, log into https://apikey.wordpress.com/. Enter this key into the “WordPress API key” field in the Jetpack Post Views Settings page and click “Save Changes.”
To display the total views for a post anywhere on your site, just add the following code to your files (such as single.php):
<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'jetpack-post-views', true ); ?>
To display views for a day, week, month, or year, add the appropriate code:
<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'jetpack-post-views-Day', true ); ?> <?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'jetpack-post-views-Week', true ); ?> <?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'jetpack-post-views-Month', true ); ?> <?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'jetpack-post-views-Year', true ); ?>
Stats are updated hourly only if the plugin is active.
There are many factors that could go wrong that would prevent a post from updating. Before you submit a support ticket, please ensure that:
If the post still isn’t updating, please open a support ticket and include the following information along with a description of what the problem is. This will help me try to identify where the problem could be:
Use the function ‘JPV_display_top_posts()’
Usage
Default Usage
‘-1’,
‘limit’ => ‘5’,
‘exclude’ => ”,
‘excludeCustomPostTypes’ => false,
‘displayViews’ => false ); ?>
Parameters
days – (string) The number of days of the desired time frame. ‘-1’ means unlimited.
limit – (string) The number of posts to display. ‘-1’ means unlimited. If days is -1, then limit is capped at 500.
exclude – (string) A comma-separated list of Post IDs to be excluded from displaying.
excludeCustomPostTypes – (boolean) Excludes custom post types from displaying.
displayViews – (boolean) Displays the post views.
NOTE This function only works if the function stats_get_csv()
exists. If this function is not working probably, it is probably due to the stats_get_csv()
function not returning the needed results.
Use the shortcode ‘[jpv]’
The shotcode uses the same parameters as the ‘JPV_display_top_posts()’ function
JPV_display_top_posts()
function to display top posts in a template