View Counter

View counter is a useful feature that a good website should own to provide statistical information. JNews has provided a built-in view counter plugin that we branch from the most popular view counter plugins. We have analyzed those popular plugins and implemented the pros into our built-in plugin. In other words, we can get all benefits from various plugins and implement the best practical feature inside JNews.

This plugin will be used on several elements on JNews such as post view counter, JNews – Popular Post widget, JNews – Tab Post widget, etc. You can also use the popular view by week, month, or year feature on Visual Composer and Widget.

On JNews V10, we have improved the view counter. With the new interactive statistic page, Users can see how popular their posts are directly from the account page. Specify which visitors can be counted as a view & better avoid false view count.

Table of Contents

1. Installation
2. General Setting
3. Statistic Page

Installation

To enable the view counter feature on your website, you just need to install JNews – View Counter plugin. You can easily install and activate this plugin from Plugin Dashboard by going to JNews Dashboard → Plugin

General Setting

Right after you’ve done with the plugin activation, next you can setup general review settings to fit with your website’s need. You can access general view counter setting by simply hit the Option or go to Appearance → Customize → JNews : View Counter Setting

On JNews : View Counter Setting, there are several sections that you will find :

1. Data Settings
2. View Settings

1. Data Settings

In this section, you can set data options for the view counter.

1. Limit Data
   Limit the view count data to reduce the database space usage. Total view count would be preserved however, the detailed view count information would be lost.
2. Data Expiration
   Data older than the specified time frame in days will be automatically discarded.

1. View Settings

In this section, you can set view options for the view counter.

1. Count Interval and Unit
   Give interval each visit count for the same visitor.
2. Strict Count
   Prevents counting the same visitor view within the View Count Interval that uses private browsing or clearing cookies.
3. Exclude Visitors
   Ignores view from the selected visitor type.
4. Exclude Roles
   Ignores view from the selected user roles. Requires `Selected user roles` to be included in `Exclude Visitors`.

Statistic Page

With the new interactive statistic page, Users can see how popular their posts are doing directly from the account page