From now on I'll read the .txt file.

But it's so absurd that the text for the info on the oficial plugin site is screwed up and not fixed. A text on a web page should display correctly. We build complex applications, have discussions about coding miracles and all on this (and other) forums, and than we can't make a simple basic text display properly on a web page… I 'm always so fascinated by this kind of contradiction.

Anyway, thanks for the reply, _ck_. Onward…

(My forum is getting better and better now, and when it's the way I wanted it to be, it'll be a great example to showcase a bbPress powered forum.)

(Feels like I'm talking to myself here, but well…).

I can't believe I spent 2 hours or more to get the plugin to work. How can you put "showviewcount ()" as code, in the Other Notes page, when actually is:
show_view_count()

I mean, how should you figure out that you need to put underscores?
the documentation should read:

Insert this code <?php show_view_count(); ?> where you want the view count to appear. (Only in the Loop).

If for example you want it in a column, add this to your table: <td class="num"><?php show_view_count(); ?></td>.

And this, as table heading: <th><?php _e('Views'); ?></th>.

Wouldn't it be easier to understand?

I got to deactivate the alongside function.

BUT: stil can't get the numbers to work properly in the column.

I can't get this:

Open front-page.php. Find (around line 21). Replace everything between this opening tag and (around line 46) with the following:
— > "> > ">

Sorry, but it doesn't make any sense to me.

1) Find (around line 21).
Find what?

2) The following: — > "> > ">

Never saw something like this.

Logically you should just put the function in a tab cell between <td></td> and it should work.

Like this: <td><?php showviewcount() ?></td>

But I got an error if I do that.

Any help is appreciated.

And really, how can I deactivate the views dispaying aongside the Topic title. That is so weird as a place to dispaly the views. And how come that on any other forum using this functionality they got it right as I wanted: views in views colum and NO values ALONGSIDE the Topic title, even if from what I read in the plugin information is default behaviour?

Am I missing something, or the plugion lacks proper and simple instructions?

function forums_views_append($forums) {
global $bbdb; $sum_meta_value="SUM(meta_value)";
$forums_views = $bbdb->get_results(" SELECT $sum_meta_value,forum_id FROM $bbdb->topicmeta LEFT JOIN $bbdb->topics ON $bbdb->topicmeta.topic_id = $bbdb->topics.topic_id WHERE $bbdb->topicmeta.meta_key='views' GROUP BY $bbdb->topics.forum_id");
foreach ($forums_views as $forum_views) {$forums[$forum_views->forum_id]->views=$forum_views->$sum_meta_value; }
return $forums;
}
add_filter('get_forums','forums_views_append');

Where should I put it?

I am having a problem with the plugin.

I run bbpress 1.0.1 and I installed bb Topic Views (1.6.4).

Now, I've put <th><?php _e('Views'); ?></th> and <td><?php echo $forum->views; ?></td> at the right places in orde to add the Views column.

Thing is that no value shows in the Views column.
I got the values displaying right after the Topic name like so: This is my topic (2 views). I know this is the default setting but:

1) I'd like to have the values dispaying in the column
2) I don't want them to appear after the Tipic title (it's odd to have it twice).

Oh, I got the <?php bb_head(); ?> in header.php

Any help?

Weird thing...For some reason the plugin showed '1 views' for the first 99 views but once the number of views passed 100 it started showing the correct number of views again.

Crazy, huh???

Love this plugin but something weird just happened (Running RC2 btw)

All my new topics have been having their views update, but all of a sudden someone started a topic and its stuck at '1 views'.

No clue why this happened.

Here it is if you want to look:

National Energy Tax: Where does the PA Congressional Delegation Stand? (1 views)

http://newstalkpa.com/ (Should be near the top)

Here is my little problem...
I've well integrated this plugin in my forum (as a new column).

Everything goes well except the size of the view_count column... It seems to be a not fixed value and it destroy all the front_page structure.
I'm not so good in css but it should exist a value to modify this to a fixed size ...

here is my forum : http://soab.beachdays.net
I'm using 9.0.4.

Thanx a lot for answers.

And excuse my not so good english.

Have a nice day !

djeelo

So install 1.6.4
Then deactivate it.
Then re-activate it.

And then the view counters should start increasing again for "stuck" values.

So if the topic keeps only showing the number of posts as the number of views that may mean something is corrupted.

Are you running bbPress 0.9 or 1.0 - did you change anything recently?

If you have phpmyadmin and know how to use it, you can search in bb_topic_meta for the views meta for that topic number and delete it - then it should recount it.

But very strange it's not updating. Maybe sessions are temporarily broken on your server and it needs to be restarted?

Update: it occurs to me that one way this could happen is if there are multiple entries in the bb_topic_meta for the same topic, for views. This means one of them is being updated, the other isn't, and the one that is not being updated is being displayed. Technically this is possible but should never happen. PHPmyadmin would be able to confirm this suspicion.

It's the thread entitled, "Bite primer-- information on bites and reactions".

Would welcome any feedback!

Well if you are missing bb_head I bet you are missing bb_foot too

Absolutely :) Thanks for the code