CUSTOM SHOW POST USIN WORDPRESS

Get post view without any plugin in WordPress

Follow the steps given bellow

1. Go to your theme’s function.php and add the following code in it.

function getPostViews($postID){
    $count_key = ‘post_views_count’;
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==”){
        delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
        add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
        return “0 View”;
    }
    return $count.’ Views’;
}

function setPostViews($postID) {
    $count_key = ‘post_views_count’;
    $count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
    if($count==”){
        $count = 0;
        delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
        add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, ‘0’);
    }else{
        $count++;
        update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
    }
}
remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head’, 10, 0);

2. This step tracking the view of the post so post the following code in single.php where you want to display the post views.

setPostViews(get_the_ID());
?>