Title: Additional Restriction before Count
Last modified: December 10, 2016

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# Additional Restriction before Count

 *  [esemlabel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esemlabel/)
 * (@esemlabel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-restriction-before-count/)
 * Please, add additional restriction to plugin options before count.
    Might not
   only I, always have to update code manually every time plugin get update. For
   me it is important: – not count if author view his own post – count only published
   post, and not count pending or when preview from admin – restrict count only 
   for specific roles, one or multiple For example, line 118 of wp-postviews.php:
 * `if( $post->post_author != $user_ID && $post->post_status == 'publish' && !current_user_can('
   upload_files' ) &&`
    … or selected roles in array, than update_post_meta ..
 * Keep developing. Thanks!

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