The Wordpress post views counter "Recently Popular" was installed in a widget on my website in combination with the Suffusion Theme. Everything looked great, post hits were getting counted, but then on the second day I realized something was wrong:
1) Posts were showing a count number, which was 3 to 4 times more than indicated by statcounter.com. e.g. 350 instead of 100.
2) New posts often started with a count number of 50 to 60 after the first click.
3) There are several similar plugins available and I must have tried at least 10 different ones.
4) All post views counters show the same phenomenon of "over-counting".
My question is whether there is a compatibility problem of such plugins with the Suffusion Theme and if so, whether there is a way to resolve this problem?
Why Do Post Views Counters Not Work with Suffusion?
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Why Do Post Views Counters Not Work with Suffusion?
by supertrooper » 14 May 2012, 09:10
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Re: Why Do Post Views Counters Not Work with Suffusion?
by sayontan » 14 May 2012, 12:32
I don't believe there is any compatibility issue with Suffusion - a theme doesn't reload your content repeatedly to facilitate overcounting. If you have suspicious counts, it maybe that the the post counter plugins are written in a manner not as sophisticated as your stats counter.
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