How to unlink all posts from tracking same amount of views
I'm trying to show the top 5 most popular ( most viewed ) blogs. It is working as it should and then I added a script in the functions.php to display the views just while I build this so I can see it's working.
The problem is when I click a post, they all +1 in views, even tho they are ordering my most viewed to least viewed as they should, they are still connected to each other. How do I get them to ++ independently and not be connected?
functions.php
/* most popular script to count the posts */
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 $count.' Views';
}
/* the script to display the view count */
function bac_PostViews($postID) {
//Set the name of the Posts Custom Field.
$count_key = 'post_views_count';
//Returns values of the custom field with the specified key from the specified post.
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
//If the the Post Custom Field value is empty.
if($count == ''){
$count = 0; // set the counter to zero.
//Delete all custom fields with the specified key from the specified post.
delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
//Add a custom (meta) field (Name/value)to the specified post.
add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');
return $count . ' View';
//If the the Post Custom Field value is NOT empty.
}else{
$count++; //increment the counter by 1.
//Update the value of an existing meta key (custom field) for the specified post.
update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);
//If statement, is just to have the singular form 'View' for the value '1'
if($count == '1'){
return $count . ' View';
}
//In all other cases return (count) Views
else {
return $count . ' Views';
}
}
}
the loop
?php $catquery = new WP_Query(array(
'meta_key' = 'post_views_count',
'orderby' = 'meta_value_num',
'posts_per_page' = 5,
'cat' = '52',
)); ?
ol class="topheadlines"
?php while($catquery-have_posts()) : $catquery-the_post(); ?
!-- display view count --
?php if(function_exists('bac_PostViews')) {
echo bac_PostViews(get_the_ID());
}?
div class="row"
div class="col-9" style="padding:0px 0px 0px 5px;"
li class="topheadlines-text"a href="?php the_permalink() ?" rel="bookmark"?php the_title(); ?/a/li
/div
div class="col-3 topheadline-thumb" style="padding:0px 5px 0px 5px;"
?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post-ID, 'large' ); ?
/div
/div
?php endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
?
single.php
?php
/**
* The template for displaying all single posts
*
* @package understrap
*/
// Exit if accessed directly.
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;
get_header();
$container = get_theme_mod( 'understrap_container_type' );
?
div class="row" style="margin:0;"
div class="col-md-9 single-bg" style="padding:0;"
div class="container-fluid"
div class="single-wrap"
h5 class="single-date"
?php echo get_the_date(); ?
/h5
h2 class="single-title"
?php the_title(); ?
/h2
h3 class="single-sub-title"
?php echo the_field('mt_post_subtitle'); ?
/h3
?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?
div class="single-thumb"
?php $category = get_the_category();
$firstCategory = $category[0]-cat_name;
?
?php if($firstCategory != 'Daily (Email)') { ?
?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail( $post-ID, 'large' );
}
?
/div
div class="single-content"
?php the_content(); ?
/div
?php
$author_id = get_the_author_meta('ID');
$author_badge = get_field('author_badge', 'user_'. $author_id );
?
div class="author-wrap clearfix"
div class="author-pic"
a href="?php echo esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ); ?" title="?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author() ); ?"
?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) , 50 ); ?
/a
/div
h5 class="author-name"
a href="?php echo esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ); ?" title="?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author() ); ?"
?php the_author(); ?brspan class="author-title"?php the_field('title', 'user_'. $author_id ); ?, The Hustle/span
/a
/h5
/div!-- end author wrap --
?php endwhile; ?
?php endif; ?
?php $category = get_the_category();
$firstCategory = $category[0]-cat_name;
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Daily (Email)') { ?
a href="/daily"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Stories') { ?
a href="/stories"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Blog') { ?
a href="/blog"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Episodes') { ?
a href="/"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == '') { ?
a href="/"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Uncategorized') { ?
a href="/"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
?php if($firstCategory == 'Brief') { ?
a href="/series/brief"
button type="button" class="btn btn-primary single-read-more"?php echo $button_text; ?Related Posts/button
/a
?php
}
?
div class="recent-wrap"
h4 class="featured-headlines"
Recent Posts
/h4
?php echo do_shortcode('[recent_post_carousel design="design-1" category="52,6"]'); ?
/div!-- end recent wrap --
/div!-- end singlewrap --
/div!-- end container fluid --
/div!-- end col 9 --
div class="col-md-3" style="padding:0; margin:0;"
?php include get_template_directory() . '/inc/page-sidebar.php'; ?
/div!-- end col 3 sidebar --
/div !-- end master row --
?php get_footer();