What makes this solution over other view-tracking plugins is that it pulls the information from Jetpack.
Thank you to Milan Dinić for improvements in the code after the initial release ...
Activate the plugin through the Plugins WordPress..
So for example, if you wanted to change the meta key from views to my-key, you would use this in your functions php file function my view counter meta key { return 'my-key }.
The plugin will check to make sure the new view count is greater than the old one before replacing, so there is some fallback to prevent it from overwriting saved views from other plugins also using the views post meta key...
Every 3 hours entry is accessed, the plugin will check WordPress com Stats view count and update locally.
The delay is to ensure we don't overload WordPress com Stats API..
This will be unnoticeable to the visitor because it's unlikely they are sitting on your site waiting for the views to update, like you might be..
There were problems with compatibility with WordPress 4.3.1, but the author has released in.
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