Need to update hit count in database

Hi there,

I recreated a website on WordPress that was previously running on Joomla. It’s a news/reporter website, so the old site had many hits on the various articles.
I installed the Mechanic Post Hits Counter on the site because I need to show the article hits on the new site, but I need to include the amount of hits that each article already had on the old website.

I tried to update the number of hits in the database for each article (post), but the new number in the database doesn’t reflect on the front end of the website. The front end only displays the hits it gets on each page, regardless of the new numbers I put in the database.

Any way around this?

Here’s the site: http://www.mediaforjustice.net/

http://wordpress.org/plugins/mechanic-post-hits-counter/