Title: View Count Trigger
Last modified: July 25, 2020

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# View Count Trigger

 *  Resolved [fippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgilfillan/)
 * (@dgilfillan)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/view-count-trigger/)
 * Hi, I’m trying understand the available triggers for counting post view logic.
   Your documentation seems to indicate views can only be counted on single post
   page load). Is that correct or do other ways exist?
 * For example, on a section of our site we have a Custom Post Type that does not
   include a single post page, but rather the user sees a popup or an external link
   when clicking on a post returned in the archive loop. Can your view count logic
   be fired by clicking on a link so we can track popular posts without visits to
   the single post page?

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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/view-count-trigger/#post-13168801)
 * Hi [@dgilfillan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgilfillan/),
 * Maybe this can help: [updating views count via AJAX](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpp-with-an-ajax-based-site/#post-11722489).

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 * [count](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/count/)
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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/view-count-trigger/#post-13168801)
 * Status: resolved