Title: Does WordPress count natively?
Last modified: March 14, 2023

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# Does WordPress count natively?

 *  Resolved [gwkopy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwkopy/)
 * (@gwkopy)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-count-natively/)
 * Does this plugin count views only when installed or can it count views already
   in the WP database? WordPress counts post views by itself, right? I have a widget
   that counts these views. Would like something that doesn’t start views from zero.

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 *  Plugin Author [Steve Truman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a3rev/)
 * (@a3rev)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-wordpress-count-natively/#post-16557193)
 * Hello [@gwkopy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwkopy/) ,
 * WordPress core does not store post or page view counts, so there is no data to
   populate the page view totals when you install a counter plugin.
 * Our Page Views Count does give you the ability to enter any start number you 
   want from the Post or Page editor. But that has to be done manually.
 * You can see that here on [the plugins docs](https://docs.a3rev.com/wordpress/page-view-count/#section-13).
 * Thank you
 * Steve

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