Post Views Counter

Changelog

1.4.3

• Tweak: Update languages file

1.4.2

• New: Option to select position of the plugin menu

1.4.1

• Fix: Frontpage views not recorded properly

1.4

• New: Introducing Post Views Counter Pro
• New: Fast Ajax views counting mode (Pro)
• New: Google AMP support (Pro)
• New: Taxonomy term views (Pro)
• New: Author archive views (Pro)
• New: Cookies/Cookieless data storage option (Pro)
• New: Dedicated Reports page (Pro)
• New: Exporting views to CSV or XML files (Pro)
• Tweak: Improved validation and sanitization
• Tweak: Chart.js updated to 4.3.0

1.3.13

• New: Compatibility with WP 6.2 and PHP 8.2
• Fix: Invalid year in seconds
• Fix: Possible invalid cookie data in views storage
• Fix: Default database prefix
• Tweak: Switch from wp_localize_script to wp_add_inline_script
• Tweak: Updated bot detection

1.3.12

• Fix: Frontend Javascript rewritten from jQuery to Vanilla JS
• Fix: Admin Bar Style loading on every page
• Fix: Network initialization process for new sites
• Fix: IP address encryption
• Fix: REST API endpoints
• Fix: Removed couple of deprecated functions
• Tweak: Updated chart.js script to version 3.9.1
• Tweak: Added SameSite attribute to cookie

1.3.11

• Fix: Potentailly incorrect counting of post views in edge case db queries
• Fix: Possible empty chart in dashboard
• Fix: Incorrect saving of dashboard widget user options
• Tweak: Updated Chart.js to version 3.7.0

1.3.10

• Fix: Post views column not working properly
• Tweak: Switched to openssl_encrypt method for IP encryption
• Tweak: Improved user input escaping

1.3.9

• Tweak: Remove unnecessary plugin files

1.3.8

• Tweak: Improved user input escaping

1.3.7

• Tweak: Implemented internal settings API

1.3.6

• Fix: Option to hide admin bar chart

1.3.5

• New: Option to hide admin bar chart
• Fix: Small security bug with views label
• Tweak: Remove unnecessary CSS on every page

1.3.4

• New: Post Views stats preview in the admin bar
• New: Top Posts data available in the dashboard widget
• Tweak: Improved privacy using IP encrypting
• Tweak: PHP 8.x compatibility

1.3.3

• Fix: PHP Notice: Trying to get property ‘colors’ of non-object
• Fix: PHP Notice: register_rest_route was called incorrectly

1.3.2

• New: Introducing dashboard widget navigation
• New: Counter support for Media (attachments)
• Tweak: Extended views query for handling complex date/time requests

1.3.1

• Fix: Gutenberg CSS file missing
• Tweak: POT translation file update

1.3

• New: Gutenberg compatibility
• New: Additional options in widgets: post author and display style
• Fix: Undefined variables when IP saving enabled
• Fix: Check cookie not being triggered in Fast Ajax mode
• Fix: Invalid arguments in implode function causing warning
• Fix: Thumbnail size option did not show up after thumbnail checkbox was checked
• Fix: Saving post (in quick edit mode too) did not update post views

1.2.14

• Fix: Bulk edit post views count reset issue

1.2.13

• New: Experimental Fast AJAX counter method (10+ times faster)

1.2.12

• New: GDPR compatibility with Cookie Notice plugin

1.2.11

• Tweak: Additional IP expiration checks added as an option

1.2.10

• New: Additional transient based IP expiration checks
• Tweak: Chart.js script update to 2.7.1

1.2.9

• Fix: WooCommerce products list table broken

1.2.8

• New: Multisite compatibility
• Fix: Undefined index post_views_column on post_views_counter/includes/settings.php
• Tweak: Improved user IP handling

1.2.7

• Fix: Chart data not updating for object cached installs due to missing expire parameter
• Fix: Bug preventing hiding the counter based on user role.
• Fix: Undefined notice in the admin dashboard request

1.2.6

• Fix: Hardcoded post_views database table prefix

1.2.5

• New: REST API counter mode
• New: Adjust dashboard chart colors to admin color scheme
• Tweak: Dashboard chart query optimization
• Tweak: post_views database table optimization
• Tweak: Added plugin documentation link

1.2.4

• New: Advanced crawler detection
• Tweak: Chart.js script update to 2.4.0

1.2.3

• New: IP wildcard support
• Tweak: Delete post_views database table on deactivation

1.2.2

• Fix: Notice undefined variable: post_ids, thanks to zytzagoo
• Tweak: Switched translation files storage, from local to WP repository

1.2.1

• New: Option to display post views on select page types
• Tweak: Dashboard widget query optimization

1.2.0

• New: Dashboard post views stats widget
• Fix: A couple of typos in method names

1.1.4

• Fix: Dashicons link broken.
• Tweak: Confirmed WordPress 4.4 compatibility

1.1.3

• Fix: Duplicated views count in custom post types
• Fix: Exclude visitors checkboxes not working

1.1.2

• Fix: Most viewed posts widget broken

1.1.1

• Tweak: Enable edit views on new post.
• Tweak: Extend WP_Query post data with post_views

1.1.0

• New: Quick post views edit
• New: Bulk post views edit
• Tweak: Admin UI improvements

1.0.12

• New: Italian translation, thanks to Rene Querin

1.0.11

• New: French translation, thanks to Theophil Bethel

1.0.10

• New: Option to limit post views editing to admins only

1.0.9

• New: Spanish translation, thanks to Carlos Rodriguez

1.0.8

• New: Croation translation, thanks to Tomas Trkulja

1.0.7

• New: Possibility to manually set views count for each post
• New: Plugin development moved to dFactory GitHub Repository

1.0.6

• New: Object cache support, thanks to Tomas Trkulja
• New: Hebrew translation, thanks to Ahrale Shrem

1.0.5

• Tweak: Added number_format_i18n for displayed views count
• Tweak: Additional action hook for developers

1.0.4

• Fix: Possible issue with remove_post_views_count function

1.0.3

• New: Russian translation, thanks to moonkir
• Fix: Remove [post-views] shortcode from post excerpts if excerpt is empty

1.0.2

• Fix: Pluggable functions initialized too lately

1.0.0

Initial release