kosmicbird

Well, it’s my fault for not actually reading the readme, haha!

Just so you know, on my site, users can make their own posts and it will show up in a page feed (similar to reddit style). I added the code to my child theme’s files to display the view count at the top of every post page after the post title/post meta. I am also using it on the page that displays every user’s post on a feed (it’s a category page). I would think that the majority of users who would want to display post views would opt to show it on all posts (just my opinion, not necessarily fact 🙂 That is certainly how I am using it, at least.

I do have some additional feedback for you, but I will start another thread for it as it’s related to a different issue.

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Thank you! Works like a charm now. Feeling a little dumb for not realizing I needed to add that to the file 🙂

How does the counter log views – is it done by IP address, username, or? Also is there a duration, and if so, what is the duration between the time it counts the same viewer as a “new” view?

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Temporarily working around issue #3 by setting the duplicate image (and subsequently all other user submitted images) to a tiny thumbnail so to the user it appears normal even though it’s a duplicate (it’s so small that they can infer it should be clicked on to expand) would prefer that the first user-submitted image does not duplicate next to the post’s thumbnail. For anyone in the future needing to do something like this, you can target the usp image with something like

.single .entry-content p img {
     width: 45px;
    height: auto;
}

Just mentioning that since it took me a bit of time to figure out I had to target p to modify the style.

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Update: Issue actually not resolved. This only resolved the problem for a couple of hours and then it started happening again.

Issue resolved by uploading a backed up version of the plugin files. Plugin must have corrupted after adding SSL for some reason.

Thanks for your reply. My question is how to figure out what trackers my site is using so that I can disable them.

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My last upgrade was a month ago, I did install 2 new plugins but save & publish has been working fine for a day or two after installing them. I am contacting my hosting company now to see if the issue is related to database space limitations.

Yes! Found it and fortunately only lost about an hour this time.

In wp-includes/comment.php there is this block of code:

if (wp_blacklist_check(
       $commentdata['comment_author'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_email'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_url'],
       $commentdata['comment_content'],
       $commentdata['comment_author_IP'],
       $commentdata['comment_agent']
  ) ) {
       $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'trash' : 'spam';
  }
}

I had to remove $commentdata['comment_content'] and now it’s not filtering profanity comments into the trash anymore. However now it is routing to the moderation queue… so I still need to figure out how to make it auto approve.

Thanks for the word of caution… in many cases it is best not to edit core files, but for max customization it’s unavoidable. Of course I use a child theme and also externally backup all my mods that aren’t protected by the child theme (now, since I learned my lesson after the recent WP update, which is also the reason why I had to go back and remodify this particular issue). I have also disabled automatic updates for WP and plugins now. But for the average user… those are definitely words to live by 🙂

*edit: I changed $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'trash' : 'spam'; to $approved = EMPTY_TRASH DAYS ? 'approved' : 'approved'; and now it’s not filtering at all. Problem solved!

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