WP-PostViews

Go to WP-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets The widget name is Views. To Display Least Viewed Posts <?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed')): ?> <ul> <?php get_least_viewed(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The second value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_least_viewed('both', 10); To Display Most Viewed Posts <?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed')): ?> <ul> <?php get_most_viewed(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The second value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_most_viewed('both', 10); To Display Least Viewed Posts By Tag <?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed_tag')): ?> <ul> <?php get_least_viewed_tag(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the tag id. The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_least_viewed_tag(1, 'both', 10); To Display Most Viewed Posts By Tag <?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_tag')): ?> <ul> <?php get_most_viewed_tag(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the tag id. The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_most_viewed_tag(1, 'both', 10); To Display Least Viewed Posts For A Category <?php if (function_exists('get_least_viewed_category')): ?> <ul> <?php get_least_viewed_category(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the category id. The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_least_viewed_category(1, 'both', 10); To Display Most Viewed Posts For A Category <?php if (function_exists('get_most_viewed_category')): ?> <ul> <?php get_most_viewed_category(); ?> </ul> <?php endif; ?> The first value you pass in is the category id. The second value you pass in is the post type that you want. If you want to get every post types, just use 'both'. It also supports PHP array: example array('post', 'page'). The third value you pass in is the maximum number of post you want to get. Default: get_most_viewed_category(1, 'both', 10); To Sort Most/Least Viewed Posts You can use: <?php query_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'views', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ); ?> Or pass in the variables to the URL: http://yoursite.com/?v_sortby=views&v_orderby=desc You can replace DESC with ASC if you want the least viewed posts. To Display Updating View Count With LiteSpeed Cache Use: <div id="postviews_lscwp"></div> to replace <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>. NOTE: The id can be changed, but the div id and the ajax function must match. Replace the ajax query in wp-content/plugins/wp-postviews/postviews-cache.js with jQuery.ajax({ type:"GET", url:viewsCacheL10n.admin_ajax_url, data:"postviews_id="+viewsCacheL10n.post_id+"&action=postviews", cache:!1, success:function(data) { if(data) { jQuery('#postviews_lscwp').html(data+' views'); } } }); Purge the cache to use the updated pages. To Get Views With REST API You can obtain the number of post views by adding views to your _fields parameter: /wp/v2/posts?_fields=views,title