Title: Zero Alternative?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Zero Alternative?

 *  Resolved [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/)
 * Hello
 * I’ve install and configure your plugin and it works great, thank you so much!
 * The problem is that every hour when the post count is being refreshed, I get 
   zero (0) reads for 1 or 2 posts.
 * I’ve Empty pageviews cache and Refreshed Google API token but it’s still having
   this error every cycle.
 * I don’t know if it’s a bug in the plugin or in Google Analytics API but wanted
   to ask.
 * Is it possible to change to “0” views to another number instead? “0” simply looks
   bad and a temporary number will look better until the next refresh.
 * Thank you so much!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-post-pageviews/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-post-pageviews/)

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 *  Plugin Author [maximevalette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximevalette/)
 * (@maximevalette)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896393)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks for your suggestion! I just updated the script (version 1.4) with this
   feature 🙂
 * You should be able to update it in a few minutes.
 * Let me know!
 * Best regards
 *  Thread Starter [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896397)
 * Fantastic!!! Thank you so much! I will monitor the site to see how it’s works.
   I’ll keep you posted.
 * Happy 2016!
 *  Plugin Author [maximevalette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximevalette/)
 * (@maximevalette)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896404)
 * Awesome, happy 2016 to you too 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896561)
 * Great Plugin!!! so useful. thanks you some much.
 * one more question.. is it possible to program it to start with a different default
   value other then zero? I hate seeing Zero readers for my posts and i takes time
   to get readers..
 * Thanks again!!!
 *  Plugin Author [maximevalette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximevalette/)
 * (@maximevalette)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896562)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks!
 * There is a setting for that: “Default value when a count cannot be fetched”.
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896563)
 * Thank you for you quick reply. indeed there is..:-) it was my suggestion back
   then.. However, new posts will still start with zero because the: “Default value
   when a count cannot be fetched”. is only working when the plugin fails to fetch
   the data from Google analytics (I think..)
 * Is there a way to give new posts a startup number instead of zero?
 * Thanks again!!!
 *  Plugin Author [maximevalette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximevalette/)
 * (@maximevalette)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896564)
 * I don’t think that’s the kind of feature I’d like to add to the plugin.
 * However you can add a simple `if` statement and check the value of the number
   of pageviews, or hide the counter for posts younger than one day…
 *  Thread Starter [Mt Boychick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtboychick/)
 * (@mtboychick)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896565)
 * i hear you…:-) Thanks again!!!
 *  Plugin Author [maximevalette](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximevalette/)
 * (@maximevalette)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896566)
 * You’re welcome 🙂

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/zero-alternative/#post-6896566)
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