Title: Problem with update_post_meta function
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Problem with update_post_meta function

 *  [Anderson Veiga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andersonv12/)
 * (@andersonv12)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-update_post_meta-function/)
 * Hi, I’m developing a theme and I needed to create a meta field to count the hits
   for each post.
 * Follows the code:
 *     ```
       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);
           }
       }
       ```
   
 * Well, to test it I created 3 posts and when I hit the post #1, the counter of
   the post #1 and post #2 are increased simultaneously. The same issue occurs when
   I hit any post: the next post counter is increased too. Only the last post (most
   recent) works fine.
 * The functions are called in the single.php file using the get_the_ID() function
   as the parameter.

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 *  Thread Starter [Anderson Veiga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andersonv12/)
 * (@andersonv12)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-update_post_meta-function/#post-7107497)
 * One more observation: I hit the post #1 and refresh the listing page and just
   the post #1 counter is increased, but when I refresh the page about 3 seconds
   later, the post #2 counter is increased too.
 * And sorry for my English, I don’t speak fluently.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-update_post_meta-function/#post-7107497)
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