Hi,

Can you tell me how you can detect it showing most viewed posts monthly or weekly?

Best Regards,

PenciDesign

Hi,

Yes, exactly.

The popular posts on weekly will showing the most viewed posts in the last 7 days.

The popular posts on monthly will showing the most viewed posts in the last 30 days.

So, of course, it can be different. I just checked it from my-end and I see the counter is correct..

Example: You have a post AA has published 3 months ago, but in this week, this post has many views, it still showing on the most viewed posts in the last 7 days.

Best Regards,

PenciDesign

Hi,

1/ Yeah, at this moment, it's not.

2/ If so, I think you can try use random posts for Recent Posts widget, let's edit your recent posts widget, select order by to "Random" to make your posts display as random - I think it's better for your case.

Best Regards,

PenciDesign

Hi,

If your popular posts weekly/monthly data can't be updated - that means your hosting doesn't support function: wp_schedule_event from WordPress. It makes the post data can't be removed after each week/month.

Here are our codes to process to clear post views after each week/month:

/**
 * Add schedules intervals
 *
 * @since  2.5.1
 *
 * @param  array $schedules
 *
 * @return array
 */
add_filter( 'cron_schedules', 'penci_add_schedules_intervals' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'penci_add_schedules_intervals' ) ) {
    function penci_add_schedules_intervals( $schedules ) {
        $schedules['weekly'] = array(
            'interval' => 604800,
            'display'  => __( 'Weekly', 'soledad' )
        );
        $schedules['monthly'] = array(
            'interval' => 2635200,
            'display'  => __( 'Monthly', 'soledad' )
        );
        return $schedules;
    }
}
/**
 * Add scheduled event during theme activation
 *
 * @since  2.5.1
 * @return void
 */
add_action( 'after_switch_theme', 'penci_add_schedule_events' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'penci_add_schedule_events' ) ) {
    function penci_add_schedule_events() {
        if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'penci_reset_track_data_weekly' ) )
            {wp_schedule_event( time(), 'weekly', 'penci_reset_track_data_weekly' );}
        if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'penci_reset_track_data_monthly' ) )
            {wp_schedule_event( time(), 'monthly', 'penci_reset_track_data_monthly' );}
    }
}
/**
 * Remove scheduled events when theme deactived
 *
 * @since  2.5.1
 * @return void
 */
add_action( 'switch_theme', 'penci_remove_schedule_events' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'penci_remove_schedule_events' ) ) {
    function penci_remove_schedule_events() {
        wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'penci_reset_track_data_weekly' );
        wp_clear_scheduled_hook( 'penci_reset_track_data_monthly' );
    }
}
/**
 * Reset view counter of week
 *
 * @since  2.5.1
 * @return void
 */
add_action( 'penci_reset_track_data_weekly', 'penci_reset_week_view' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'penci_reset_week_view' ) ) {
    function penci_reset_week_view() {
        global $wpdb;
        $meta_key = 'penci_post_week_views_count';
        $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->postmeta SET meta_value = '0' WHERE meta_key = %s", $meta_key ) );
    }
}
/**
 * Reset view counter of month
 *
 * @since  2.5.1
 * @return void
 */
add_action( 'penci_reset_track_data_monthly', 'penci_reset_month_view' );
if ( ! function_exists( 'penci_reset_month_view' ) ) {
    function penci_reset_month_view() {
        global $wpdb;
        $meta_key = 'penci_post_month_views_count';
        $wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->postmeta SET meta_value = '0' WHERE meta_key = %s", $meta_key ) );
    }
}

You can contact your hosting provider and requirement them fix it to help you.

We've checked it many times before to make sure this function working well. I saw some customers have this issue before because their hosting doesn't support it.

Best Regards,

PenciDesign