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Dev Daniel
Dev Daniel

Reputation: 445

WordPress hook for opening a post

I am very new to WordPress plugin development.

I have been searching this for a quite a while now but I am currently creating a plugin and I need my plugin to start logging the amount of views a post has had. I already know what I want this part of to do however I am having trouble find out how to a php function for when a post is viewed by a visitor to my WordPress site.

Could someone please show me what the wordpress hook/event is to run a function on post view/load? I want to do this without the use of template as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1871

Answers (1)

Sandeep Kumar
Sandeep Kumar

Reputation: 617

you can use post meta for count the post view. when a user view post that is single.php file you can place your custom function on this file. which update post meta when a user view post.

Another way is that you hook you custom function which count and update post meta in the following filter hook

add_filter( 'the_content', 'my_the_content_filter' );

Upvotes: 0

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