Post Views Counter · Version history
Post Views Counter changelog and version history
- Latest version
- 1.8.2
- Nov 2, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Releases
- 88
- since 2014
- In the last year
- 23
- about one every 16 days
- Tested up to
- WordPress 7.2
- PHP 7.4 or later
Releases each year
- 20145 releases
- 201513 releases
- 20165 releases
- 20175 releases
- 20185 releases
- 20192 releases
- 20203 releases
- 20217 releases
- 20222 releases
- 20235 releases
- 20245 releases
- 202513 releases
- 202618 releases
202618 releases
Post Views Counter 1.8.2Latest
- New: Status tab with counting activity, configuration and data checks, button-triggered delivery checks, and a support report you can copy or download.
- Fix: Keep JavaScript and REST API counting working when cached pages contain expired tokens.
- Fix: Keep counting Views during Visits state recovery and restart the derived-metrics history after a counting gap.
- Fix: Distinguish failed statistics reads from zero counts and avoid caching failed reads.
- Fix: Report failed manual Views edits, preserve large totals, and prevent cancelled or unconfirmed editor updates from being replayed.
- Fix: Assign counted Views to the same counting-clock period as their Visit decision.
- Fix: Keep multisite activation and deactivation within the current network and preserve statistics during activation recovery.
- Fix: Prevent concurrent ownership of schema maintenance, buffered-count saves and summary email sending.
- Tweak: Group related Status checks, clarify license settings, and add settings-tab icons.
- Tweak: Use WordPress notices for Status results and highlight warnings and critical findings in the Status tab icon.
Post Views Counter 1.8.1
- Fix: Activate the plugin over existing statistics without losing stored Views.
- Fix: Protect existing statistics marked for deletion by a previous deactivation and clarify activation errors.
- Fix: Preserve Views access during Visits cache recovery and improve Plugin Status diagnostics.
- Fix: Restore frontend counter alignment in themes with centered content layouts.
Post Views Counter 1.8.0
- New: Site-wide Visits tracking.
- New: Views, Visits and combined display modes in the Post Views dashboard chart.
- New: Monthly Views comparisons in the Post Views dashboard widget.
- New: Custom Format for frontend Views counters in Display settings, shortcodes and PHP functions.
- New: Traffic Signals for changes in visits starting on a post.
- Fix: Block editor counter editing permissions, duplicate saves and error reporting.
- Fix: Counter input validation and Bulk Edit updates for saved posts.
- Fix: Access checks for admin column Views charts.
- Fix: Exclude non-post counts from post charts and summary emails.
- Fix: Traffic Signals and modal periods follow Count Time, including month-end comparisons.
- Fix: Preserve daily history when Cleanup Interval is set to 0.
- Fix: Prevent false Traffic Signals when daily history is incomplete.
- Fix: Keep keyboard focus inside the Views chart modal after navigating between periods.
- Fix: Restore the Views counter in the block editor on WordPress 6.4.
- Fix: Restore lifetime totals in pvc_get_views() when no period is specified.
- Tweak: Limit form-based counter edits to the submitted post; use pvc_update_post_views() for programmatic updates.
- Tweak: Use stored totals for manual Views edits, independently of pvc_get_post_views filters.
- Tweak: Remove pvcArgsQuickEdit.nonce from post lists; retain the save_bulk_post_views AJAX action for compatibility.
- Tweak: Reduce Traffic Signals reads to one database query per posts list page.
- Tweak: Use native Views column sorting with a stable tie-break.
- Tweak: Unify the frontend counter label to Views.
- Tweak: Replace frontend Dashicons with a CSS counter icon.
- Tweak: Retire the Icon Class setting; custom icons now require the pvc_counter_icon_class or pvc_counter_icon filter.
Post Views Counter 1.7.15
- Fix: Improve Statify import reliability with deterministic batching and collation-safe cursors.
- Fix: Isolate provider failures and report transaction outcomes accurately.
- Fix: Preserve import strategy compatibility and correct strategy statistics.
- Fix: Restore WordPress 7.1 block editor compatibility, including iframed placeholder styles and block cleanup.
- Tweak: Improve block editor controls and admin toolbar accessibility.
Post Views Counter 1.7.14
- Fix: Counter loading states and target metadata.
- Tweak: Pass raw post views shortcode attributes to filters.
- Tweak: Improve license settings integration and compatibility.
Post Views Counter 1.7.13
- Fix: Save post views correctly from WooCommerce product Quick Edit.
Post Views Counter 1.7.12
- Fix: Prevent widget fatal errors when pvc_most_viewed_posts loads before the widgets API is ready.
- Fix: Refresh dashboard period navigation data for widgets.
- Fix: Improve email summary recipient validation and persist the separate test recipient setting.
- Tweak: Constrain total post view lookups to the total period.
Post Views Counter 1.7.11
- New: Weekly email summaries with scheduling, test send, and template-based rendering.
Post Views Counter 1.7.10
- New: Session-based counting migration with legacy compatibility.
- Fix: Admin post views ordering fallback.
- Tweak: Normalize Count Interval to hours-only.
Post Views Counter 1.7.9
- New: Lazy-load widgets loading.
- New (Pro): Add Kadence Blocks integration for Posts block ordering by views
- New (Pro): Add CoBlocks integration for Posts and Post Carousel ordering by views
Post Views Counter 1.7.8
- Fix: Harden option-backed in_array() checks to prevent PHP 8.x TypeErrors.
- Fix: Add IPv6 support for excluded IP matching in settings and counting.
- Tweak: Update internal build tooling.
Post Views Counter 1.7.7
- Fix: Prevent undefined array key warnings when saving Display settings menu position.
Post Views Counter 1.7.6
- Fix: Prevent SQL errors in pvc_get_post_views function.
Post Views Counter 1.7.5
- Tweak: Optimize traffic signals database query performance.
- Tweak: Admin columns display priority and traffic signals comparison alignment.
Post Views Counter 1.7.4
- New: Month-over-Month anomaly detection traffic signals in admin columns.
- Tweak: Add loading state UI to modal charts.
- Fix: Month period rollover calculation in chart navigation.
- Fix: Cookie validation for empty or malformed segments in frontend.
Post Views Counter 1.7.3
- Fix: Settings validation for exclude/restrict display checkbox fields.
- Fix: Map nested array format to flat field keys before validation.
- Fix: Restrict display merge logic using correct field names.
Post Views Counter 1.7.2
- Fix: jQuery wrapper applied to vanilla JS files in build output.
Post Views Counter 1.7.1
- New: Enhanced settings UI with modern theme and improved visual design.
- Tweak: Improved settings field conditional visibility and validation.
- Tweak: Better taxonomy display controls and IP exclusion field descriptions.
- Fix: JS redeclaration errors by wrapping editor bundles in IIFE.
- Fix: Conditional visibility for nested import settings fields.
202513 releases
Post Views Counter 1.7.0
- New: Integrations page with user-controlled handling for third-party plugins.
- New (Pro): Beaver Builder integration for ordering posts by views in modules.
- New (Pro): Improved JetEngine integration copy and settings UI.
- Tweak: Refactored settings into modular page classes with backward compatibility.
- Fix: Editor JS scope collisions by wrapping editor bundles in IIFE.
Post Views Counter 1.6.1
- Tweak: Switch to Vite build system for improved development workflow.
- Fix (Pro): Fixed empty user agent handling in Fast AJAX mode.
- Tweak: Additional UI improvements for settings pages.
Post Views Counter 1.6.0
- New: Dedicated import framework with provider-aware analysis/reporting and strategy selector.
- New: Option to import views from Statify and Page Views Count plugins.
- New (Pro): Additional import strategies (skip existing, keep higher count, fill empty-only).
- New: Plugin Status panel now surfaces detected PVC database tables for easier troubleshooting.
- Tweak: Settings UI reorganized with refreshed copy, clearer visitor exclusion controls, and a polished Other tab experience.
- Tweak: Menu placement option moved to Display settings and mirrored for backward compatibility.
Post Views Counter 1.5.9
- New: Admin column modal chart with post views data
- New: Extended admin column modal with yearly and weekly views data (Pro)
- New: Admin column modal chart for terms and users (Pro)
Post Views Counter 1.5.8
- Tweak: Updated default value for object cache flushing interval
- Tweak: Treat empty or missing user agent as bot
Post Views Counter 1.5.7
- New: Count visits by referrer (Pro)
- Prevent duplicate AJAX calls in REST API mode
- Fix: Major improvements for FastAjax handling (Pro)
- Fix: Major object cache support improvements (Pro)
- Fix: Apply crawler/bot check filter for REST API endpoints
- Tweak: Remove unused storage and mutator methods
Post Views Counter 1.5.6
- New: Count visits by device, browser and OS (Pro)
- New: Count visits by browser language (Pro)
- New: Traffic Information dashboard widget (Pro)
- New: HTTP request improvements for caching and security (Pro)
- New: Client size bot detection (Pro)
- Tweak: Fix and simplify post views shortcode for loops
- Tweak: Adjust the post views display in Gutenberg editor
- Tweak: Check db query results and log error
Post Views Counter 1.5.5
Post Views Counter 1.5.4
Post Views Counter 1.5.3
Post Views Counter 1.5.2
Post Views Counter 1.5.1
Post Views Counter 1.5.0
20245 releases
Post Views Counter 1.4.8
Post Views Counter 1.4.7
Post Views Counter 1.4.6
Post Views Counter 1.4.5
Post Views Counter 1.4.4
20235 releases
Post Views Counter 1.4.3
Post Views Counter 1.4.2
Post Views Counter 1.4.1
Post Views Counter 1.4
Post Views Counter 1.3.13
20222 releases
Post Views Counter 1.3.12
Post Views Counter 1.3.11
20217 releases
Post Views Counter 1.3.10
Post Views Counter 1.3.9
Post Views Counter 1.3.8
Post Views Counter 1.3.7
Post Views Counter 1.3.6
Post Views Counter 1.3.5
Post Views Counter 1.3.4
20203 releases
Post Views Counter 1.3.3
Post Views Counter 1.3.2.1
Post Views Counter 1.3.2
20192 releases
Post Views Counter 1.3.1
Post Views Counter 1.3
20185 releases
Post Views Counter 1.2.14
Post Views Counter 1.2.13
Post Views Counter 1.2.12
Post Views Counter 1.2.11
Post Views Counter 1.2.10
20175 releases
Post Views Counter 1.2.9
Post Views Counter 1.2.8
Post Views Counter 1.2.7
Post Views Counter 1.2.6
Post Views Counter 1.2.5
20165 releases
Post Views Counter 1.2.4
Post Views Counter 1.2.3
Post Views Counter 1.2.2
Post Views Counter 1.2.1
Post Views Counter 1.2.0
201513 releases
Post Views Counter 1.1.4
Post Views Counter 1.1.3
Post Views Counter 1.1.2
Post Views Counter 1.1.1
Post Views Counter 1.1.0
Post Views Counter 1.0.12
Post Views Counter 1.0.11
Post Views Counter 1.0.10
Post Views Counter 1.0.9
Post Views Counter 1.0.8
Post Views Counter 1.0.7
Post Views Counter 1.0.6
Post Views Counter 1.0.5
20145 releases
Post Views Counter 1.0.4
Post Views Counter 1.0.3
Post Views Counter 1.0.2
Post Views Counter 1.0.1
Post Views Counter 1.0.0
Questions about Post Views Counter’s releases
What is the latest version of Post Views Counter?
1.8.2, released on Nov 2, 2026 (1 week ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.2 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.
How often is Post Views Counter updated?
23 releases in the last year, about one every 16 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from July 2014.
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