Title: Count Post Views with Comment Count Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Count Post Views with Comment Count * Resolved [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * (@deniscgn) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/) * Hello, cause I dont use comments on my site I thought I can use `wp_update_comment_count()` to count my post views. So everytime a visitor views a page I like to have the comment get one more. So this is easier to present the most popular page in most of the themes, cause they work with this commetent stuff. * Does anyone knows how I can put code into my header.php so that it rises the comment count when the page is loaded? * Thanks, Denis Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/) * (@wpmudev-support2) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768431) * Hey there Denis, * Hope you’re well! 🙂 * I suggest you use this plugin instead: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/) the function you mentioned just update the comment count of each post not the views. Let me know what you think. * Looking forward for your reply! 🙂 * Take care, Calvin * Thread Starter [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * (@deniscgn) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768458) * Hey Calvin, nice plugin, but its too much for me. * > just update the comment count of each post * This is what I need, a function that rises the comment count everytime a visitor visits a post. This is easier for me to use. cause lots of premium themes use… most popular posts depending on comment count. But I dont use comments, or only a few people comment so there will be no changes in the list. Now I thought if I could use the comment count to populate popular post because of the visits ( every visit rises the comment count). * So tihs makes it easy to use premium themes…without customize the wp-query 🙂 * Cheers, Denis * [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/) * (@wpmudev-support2) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768489) * Hey there Denis, * Hope you’re well! 🙂 * Did you mean that the comment count will increase as soon as a user visit your post? * What about you check the methods here: * [http://smartwebworker.com/203-wordpress-show-number-of-page-views/](http://smartwebworker.com/203-wordpress-show-number-of-page-views/) or [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/35032/60320](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/35032/60320) * Looking forward for your reply! 🙂 * Take care, Calvin * Thread Starter [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * (@deniscgn) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768495) * Hello Calvin, I found these pages, too. But this is not what I need. All these examples need To have a query depending on custom fields. And I need to create a new template. I just want TO use comment count. Cause lots of themes offer ORDERBY comments. So I dont need to create some New tempalte to display the most likes posts. Cause i count the views with rising the number of comments. Cheers, Denis * Thread Starter [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * (@deniscgn) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768613) * Hello, any one knows, how to use the `wp_update_comment_count()` ? I there something I need to add if I want to add a comment to the post without really adding a comment? Cheers, Denis * [Amin – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support2/) * (@wpmudev-support2) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768647) * Hey there Denis, * Hope you’re well! 🙂 * I don’t suggest this and I don’t think this is a good way to track pageviews. This could get a lot of stuff in your database. * I hope you understand. * Best Regards, Calvin * Thread Starter [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * (@deniscgn) * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768664) * Hey Calvin, thanks…yes, you are right. But when I count by custom field, I need to change the theme. or create a custom template to show the post. Maybe this weekend I try around with the suggestion. Cheers, Denis Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Count Post Views with Comment Count’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment/) * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [DenisCGN](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deniscgn/) * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-post-views-with-comment-count/#post-5768664) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics