Title: Popular Posts Showing Wrong Posts
Last modified: November 21, 2020

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# Popular Posts Showing Wrong Posts

 *  Resolved [artandhome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artandhome/)
 * (@artandhome)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/)
 * For the last few weeks, the WordPress Popular Posts has been showing stats for
   a random collection of articles that are NOT my most popular posts. Although 
   I am only guessing, it seems to be only showing the posts that I have visited
   and is ignoring the actual traffic to the site.
 * I’ve tried various settings, including logging views from Visitors only, Disabling
   Data Sampling (although it keeps turning itself back on), reducing the sample
   rate to as low as 1, purging the cache, etc. Nothing seems to help.
 * I have about 3,000 visitors a day, so I’m at a total loss at this point about
   what could be causing it to ignore the vast majority of the traffic to the most
   popular posts and randomly picking ones that I have looked at or edited recently.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fpopular-posts-showing-wrong-posts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [artandhome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artandhome/)
 * (@artandhome)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/#post-13692474)
 * Here is the debug info, in case it is helpful:
 * Plugin Configuration
    Performance Nag: Inactive
 * Log Limit: No
 * Log Views From: Visitors only
 * Data Caching: No
 * Data Sampling: Yes, with a rate of 1
 * External object cache: No
 * WPP_CACHE_VIEWS: No
 * System Info
    PHP version: 7.3.12
 * PHP extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, pcntl,
   readline, Reflection, SPL, session, standard, cgi-fcgi, bcmath, bz2, calendar,
   ctype, curl, dba, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, json, exif,
   mysqlnd, PDO, apcu, posix, pspell, shmop, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, sqlite3, 
   sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, xml, xmlwriter, xsl, mcrypt, mysqli, pdo_mysql,
   pdo_sqlite, wddx, xmlreader, xmlrpc, apc, igbinary, imagick, memcache, yaml, 
   zip, Phar, mysql, Zend OPcache
 * Database version: 5.7.26-29-log
 * InnoDB availability: DEFAULT
 * WordPress version: 5.5.3
 * Multisite: No
 * Active plugins: 404page – your smart custom 404 error page 11.2.6, Accelerated
   Mobile Pages 1.0.68.1, Advanced Ads 1.21.1, Astra Pro 2.7.1, Conditional Shipping
   for WooCommerce 2.1.1, Contact Widgets 1.7.0, Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp&
   More 1.5.7, GA Google Analytics 20201120, Jetpack by WordPress.com 9.1, MailChimp
   Forms by MailMunch 3.1.4, Move to Trash from Admin Bar 1.0.1, Ninja Forms 3.4.32,
   Redirection 4.9.2, Simple Google reCAPTCHA 3.7, Starter Templates 2.3.8, Ultimate
   Addons for Gutenberg 1.18.1, WooCommerce 4.7.0, WooCommerce External Product 
   New Tab 1.0.3, WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Gateway 2.1.0, WordPress Popular Posts
   5.2.4, WP External Links 2.47, WP Force SSL 1.56, WP Recipe Maker 6.8.0, Yoast
   SEO 15.3, YOP Poll 6.2.2
 * Theme: Astra (2.6.1) by Brainstorm Force
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/#post-13692526)
 * Hi [@artandhome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artandhome/),
 * Thanks for the debug info.
 * I see that you’re using WooCommerce on your website. There seems to be an issue
   with WC that prevents WordPress Popular Posts from tracking views under certain
   conditions (see here for more: [popular-posts returns error 403 and rest_cookie_invalid_nonce code in json](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-returns-error-403-and-rest_cookie_invalid_nonce-code-in-json/))
   which would explain the problem you’re having now.
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/#post-13692536)
 * > … Disabling Data Sampling (although it keeps turning itself back on) …
 * Oh, and about this: chances are your current hosting provider (GoDaddy?) is enabling
   this feature automatically for you. If so then there’s no way you can set it 
   to Disabled.
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/#post-14427844)
 * Took long enough but today finally the WC team released a new version of the 
   WooCommerce plugin that should fix the issue you were having. Please make sure
   to update WooCommerce to the latest version and if you’re still having issues
   afterwards leave a comment below.

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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/popular-posts-showing-wrong-posts/#post-14427844)
 * Status: resolved