View count per blogpost

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  afroginthefjord · Member · Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 pm

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  Hi!
  I added the widget to get a view count but it shows is the total number of views since I started the blog. Is it possible to get a view count visible for everyone for each blogpost for example at the bottom like the number of facebook shares that is visible to everyone?
  thanks!
  lou

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  timethief · Member · Apr 24, 2014 at 9:33 pm

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  The way your blog is displaying is normal and cannot be changed. Unless or until a visitor clicks the post title or the comment link those totals are not going to display on the sharing buttons. http://afroginthefjord.com/2014/04/22/how-to-become-fluent-in-norwegian-or-die-trying/

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 24, 2014 at 9:41 pm

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  Is it possible to get a view count visible for everyone for each blogpost for example

  Not that I am aware of

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  timethief · Member · Apr 24, 2014 at 9:43 pm

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  P.S. It takes all kinds to comprise the blogosphere so meet an eccentric. :)

  When I see a large count on any sharing widget I don’t share the post. If I notice a large count before I even read the post I click out without reading it. Why should I share a post that has already been shared hundreds of times? The internet is full of recirculating mediocre but “popular” articles that get shared over and over again. I think that’s too bad they don’t have a shelf life and get the boot because over-shared articles are like spam.

  That’s not my only eccentricity either. lol :D

  I have blogged for over 9 years, 8 of them here at WordPress.com and when I see a follow my blog widget advertising how many followers one has I know the display is motivated by one of two things (1) begging or (21) bragging. FAIL.