Show view count posts in wordpress?

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1. To display the count of the page you should fetch the value using the meta key via get_post_meta(). Within the loop you can use the global $post to get the current post ID.

   $popularpost = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 4, 'meta_key' => 'wpb_post_views_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC'  ) );
   while ( $popularpost->have_posts() ) : $popularpost->the_post();
       // print the post title
       the_title();
       // get the count using the meta key wpb_post_views_count
       $count = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'wpb_post_views_count', true );
       // echo the current count
       echo $count;
   endwhile;
   

   You can also simplify your function that records pageviews as well. Instead of deleting and then adding, you can just use the update_post_meta() function which will add the value if it doesn’t already exist, or update it if it does. By checking the result of get_post_meta() against false we can determine if the count needs to be initialized to 0. Once we have a value, update it to be the current value +1. Please note that on a high traffic site this isn’t guaranteed to be accurate due to race conditions updating the value for multiple requests at the same time.

   function wpb_set_post_views( $post_id ) {
       // if $count is exactly false, set it to 0, otherwise use the value from the db
       if ( false === ( $count = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpb_post_views_count', true ) ) ){
           $count = 0;
       }
       // update the value +1 pageview
       update_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpb_post_views_count', $count+1 );
   }
   

2. To count the post views, the first thing you have to do is to add the following code to your WordPress Theme functions.php

   <?php
   /*
    * Set post views count using post meta//functions.php
    */
   function customSetPostViews($postID) {
       $countKey = 'post_views_count';
       $count = get_post_meta($postID, $countKey, true);
       if($count==''){
           $count = 0;
           delete_post_meta($postID, $countKey);
           add_post_meta($postID, $countKey, '1');
       }else{
           $count++;
           update_post_meta($postID, $countKey, $count);
       }
   }
   ?>
   

   And now we will call this function in the single.php to update the count value in the Database.

   <?php 
       customSetPostViews(get_the_ID());//single.php
   ?>
   

   Now in the same single.php file if we want to show the post view count, we can use this code:

   <?php
       $post_views_count = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'post_views_count', true );
       // Check if the custom field has a value.
       if ( ! empty( $post_views_count ) ) {
           echo $post_views_count;
       }
   ?>
   

   Now to show all the popular post in the descending order by post view count. use this code:

   <?php//popular post query
       query_posts('meta_key=post_views_count&posts_per_page=5&orderby=meta_value_num&
       order=DESC');
       if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   ?>
       <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
   <?php
       endwhile; endif;
       wp_reset_query();
   ?>
   

   Happy Coding

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