Views count

Hi there,

What do you mean by “smarter”? Please try being more specific.

I see. Well, technically it’s possible of course. However, this is something specialized tools such as Google Analytics already do since a very long time now – why would you need this feature on a WordPress plugin? Just curious to know.

… to avoid cases that people will refresh the page alot and it will change the views count to 1 milion.

Well, this is something you simply won’t be able to prevent. One way or another, a determined person will still find a way to increment the views count (proxies, different computers, automated scripts, etc.). Cheaters will cheat, no matter what you do.

For the reason stated above, I don’t believe this would be worth the effort. However, I won’t dismiss the idea just yet.

At the moment, no, I can’t my friend. In its current form, the plugin just cannot prevent these kind of things.

If you really, really need a quick solution then I suggest Google Analytics: it already does what you need.

Here’s a tutorial, just in case you don’t know how to implement Google Analytics on your site. It’s fairly simple, give it a try.

In that case, it can’t be done. I’m sorry.

The feature you ask can’t be done with a simple modification to the plugin. It also requires a different DB table structure and changes to the queries as well. There’s no “code” for that since the plugin would require major changes for this. It’s just not that simple.