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Hi! I am new at WordPress and I find it very difficult in usage. 2 months ago I set up my blog. When I wanted to search my ‘blog entries’ there were additional information below every post about the number of likes and views. Now, when I go to ‘blog entries’ I can only see how many likes do I have, I can not see the views. Why did it change? I did not change anything in my settings. Thank you for answers :)
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Hi,
If you go to Dashboard > Stats and then look at Posts & Pages it will show you how many views your Posts have had and from which areas in the world.
You can read more about Stats here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/
Hope this helps :)
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Hi! Thank you for your help :) I know the function of stats, what I meant was:
Blog entries > (then I see all my posts) and likes. I used to see views under EACH post, now I can not see it :( -
I’ve gone ahead and tagged this for Staff attention.
This feature in the Calypso dashboard’s Blog Posts is very useful and I hope this change is only temporary.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/nIYIDTm166TZaFxU/wordpress.com
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Hi there,
Our infrastructure team removed the view count from the post list to improve the performance of the main posts listing. I’ve linked to this forum post letting them know that ya’ll found the feature useful and would like to see it back.
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Thanks @bdukes – Here’s another https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-have-my-number-of-views-on-my-blogs-disappeared/
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Hi,
there is a way to view stats per post – in “Blog posts” page, click on “…” next to the post title, and then click on the “Stats”. Please take a look at this screenshot this screenshot.
As stated in this support topic – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-have-my-number-of-views-on-my-blogs-disappeared/ , displaying views and likes are removed from under the post title in favor of “Stats” feature.Best regards
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Yes, indeed. That’s exactly what Staff said in the forum thread I linked to. Thanks for repeating it here. :)
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Thanks for the input everyone. The “views” being shown on the Post page caused some very serious performance problems across our network. This change became necessary to mitigate larger problems and speed things up.
On a personal level, I know that being able to see the views in a single place is beneficial, and I’m sure if we can bring this feature back in the future without performance problems we will. However, it has been disabled until further notice and we can’t promise its return.
As an additional workaround to the stats link in the three dot icon, one may visit views for a single day use a query like this.
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/posts/example.wordpress.com?startDate=2018-08-16&summarize=1&num=-1
Note you will need to replace
example.wordpress.comwith your site’s URL.
@justjennifer you asked this on this post, I’m answering here:Why then retain Likes? I’m far more interested in seeing at a glance how many times the post has been viewed than the number of Likes. Maybe that’s just me, though.
The database query to produce like data is being stored alongside the post data, however, the stat view data requires additional queries.
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I too am annoyed that the ability to quickly compare a posts view count has gone. I use the stats charts daily, but knowing that a post is x weeks old and gets x number of views is really helpful. My blog is less than a few months old, but it feels as though WordPress are constantly pushing me to go premium so I have to use plugins to get useful functionality. If there was an option to upgrade to only use plugins without the increased storage costs then I might be interested. Feel a bit annoyed that I’ve worked hard to set up my blog and something really useful has been taken away.
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I’m really disappointed to see this function go as number of views of a post is a key indicator for users. The workaround mentioned to look at views on one day isn’t particularly useful. I hope you can restore this functionality or work on a replacement. It is very much a backward step for users.
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I want to note as well, you can just head to your daily stats and see the most performant posts there, and recent posts will most likely be among them, especially if you select for the past month.
https://wordpress.com/stats/day/posts/
Note you’ll need to have a site selected for this to work, or you can type the site name after the url there.
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Weighing in here… I’m super annoyed this function is gone. As a global company the stats page shows our worldwide post stats – I’m really not concerned about seeing stats for France and Italy – I was only concerned in seeing our stats (under my account) from the blog post page. I honestly don’t know know how I can see how many reads only our LOCAL posts have.
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Oh, my! Off course there are; but, why don’t they take away the ” like ” instead of the ” view ” information?! This modification they did was a bad one – indeed!!!
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It was very convenient to look at my list of published articles and find how many views each one got, but now it no longer says. :( It’s more difficult to try to look at the graphs to find out, or to click on each blog post separately in stats
. I wish it would go back to the way it was, please! -
An inconvenient change, unnecessary at best. The kind of thing you’d expect from Farcebook, which regularly makes gratuitous changes to its site to keep the programming staff employed. There is no reason to take the view count down. It’s inconvenient. My “community happiness expert” just informed me there are no plans to bring it back, another stupid plan. Bring it back. There was no reason to take it down. Clicking on individual articles to see their view count shouldn’t be necessary. It’s a change for the worse and less-efficient. New project for the apparently-overstaffed programming dept: BRING IT BACK.
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Thanks folks! We appreciate your input on the thread and it has been reported internally. The right people will be able to see what you have taken the time to share with us.
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I concur with all the other users of this site : the view function under blog posts is essential and would be nice to have again. :)
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