Count Everything
WordPress plugin to async counting of visits to each post., (*1)
Installation
If you are using composer add this line to the required section:, (*2)
"haykalmedia/count-everything": "dev-master",
Note: the package has not been added to composer main repositories, so you have to explicit declare the repository as vcs, to do that, add repository section in composer if not already exists, then add the package git url, you will have something similar to:, (*3)
"name": "your-package-name",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "git@github.com:HaykalMedia/count-everything.git"
}
],
"require": {
"haykalmedia/count-everything": "dev-master",
}
If you are not using composer, then you can download zip file and extract it in wp-content/plugins
folder., (*4)
Usage
You can now order posts by popular ones if you are using WP_Query
by adding a query var popular_posts
or popular_posts_total
to the args or by setting the order by variable to popular_posts
., (*5)
By default the query order posts by most popular posts in the current year., (*6)
To get most popular posts in the last week, add popular_posts query var and assign week
as its value., (*7)