Wordpress: Post Views Counter

Tracking how many times a post has been viewed can provide valuable insights into content popularity and user engagement. This snippet offers a simple way to count and display the number of views a post receives.

Using the wp_head hook, the snippet increments a view count stored in post meta whenever a single post is viewed. This ensures that the view count is updated each time the post is accessed.

The function get_post_views retrieves the view count for display in themes, making it easy to add a view count to post meta sections or within post content.

This snippet also includes a discussion on the implications of view counts for SEO and how they can potentially impact user engagement metrics and content strategy.

Additional enhancements are suggested, such as excluding bot traffic from the count and integrating with caching plugins to ensure accurate counting on heavily cached sites.