Topic: Modifying add_post_meta and $post_views

[Andrew Wilson]

Hi Lester,


Thanks for a great plugin. Two questions:

1) How can I hide the custom field for views in the posts section? I've tried editing the following (which worked for other plugins) with no success:

add_post_meta($id, 'views', 1, true)

add_post_meta($id, '_views', 1, true)

2) I realise you can change the value after $post_views+x to inflate post views.

if(!update_post_meta($id, 'views', ($post_views+1))) {

Is this limited to integers, or is there any way to use decimals (i.e. 1.2) and have the post view display an integer? i.e.


1 x 3 = 3 (3 views)
1.2 x 3 = 3.6 (4 views)


Thankyou,


Andrew

[GaMerZ]

1. You are correct adding an underscore in front will hide it, but you need to do it for every add, update and delete post meta functions
2. It will except only integer as in whole numbers because i intval() the value.