Topic: PostViews buggy in 2.9

[Lincoln]

Since upgrading to WP 2.9, I noticed the PostViews now only count views from users who are logged into WordPress, such as me.  Any guest or unlogged visitor who visits the page does not yield a postview count.

[navjotjsingh]

Working perfectly here on 2.9. Pls try deactivating other plugins one by one to find the conflict if at all is occuring. I tried with both options - Everyone and Guests only.

[GaMerZ]

It works perfect on two of my installation as well.

[Lincoln]

I have since troubleshooted the plugins and determined that the problem is a plugin conflict with Ajax Edit Comments.  For some reason when AEC is running it prevents PostViews from properly incrementing.  Not sure if there's a way to workaround this issue, but I've also reported it to the developer of AEC as well.

[starman417]

I can confirm its a conflict with Ajax Edit Comments.  Postviews wasn't working for me either until I turned off that plugin.

[Lincoln]

There's a workaround (provided by the AEC developer) that will fix the issue:

Add this code in the wp-postviews.php on line 62:

if (is_int($post)) {
      $post = get_post($post);
   }

That fixed the problem for me.   

[GaMerZ]

What is weird, why wp_is_post_revision() will break the plugin, I want to make sure that the post is not a revision first before counting the views. That piece code was added to fix a bug with revision. Anyway I can follow up on this with AEC developer? Like a email that you can forward me or a forum post?

[Lincoln]

It was working fine until WordPress 2.9 though.  They must have changed something in the code, maybe the way revisions are executed that caused the plugin conflicts.  If you want to contact the developer, he can be reached via his contact form:  http://www.ajaxeditcomments.com/contact/

[GaMerZ]

Thanks, I have contacted him.

[JeffC]

Just wanted to chime in and say that today, I noticed all of my recent posts were showing 0 views and upon looking through this thread, I disabled Ajax Edit Comments and noticed the views incrementing normally so there is definitely a conflict of sorts between the two. Do I have to leave AEC disabled until an update to WP-PostViews is released?

[GaMerZ]

Hey Jeff, the fix is in reply 5.

Open up wp-postviews.php

Before line 62:
Add:

Code: [Select]

if (is_int($post)) {
$post = get_post($post);
}
I have contacted the author and waiting for reply, I just add in the fix on my end. http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/190781

[miccom]

Thanks! Now counting works again.

[kaspar]

Hi,

it doesn't work for me after I have upgraded my website to WP 2.9.2 :-(
I've added a code in the wp-postviews.php on line 62 but the plugin doesn't still count the views. (No, I don't use Ajax Editor Comments plugin).

Thank you,
Mirek