Can I recover my views? All counters were resetted to 0 views by updating database.

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Hello,

After we discovered that all questions/answers were gone on our website, we went to the admin in WP. WP said the Anspress database was not updated, with a button to update manually. So I did and all questions/answers reappeared, but all views were resetted to 0. Is there a way to recover these stats also? Thanks in advance!

Pleas check if wp_ap_views have rows?

Not even one I’m afraid…neither from history nor after the database update.
There are apmeta_type columns with ‘post_view’ values in wp_ap_meta. Has that anything to do with it?

Yes count of views table rows are stored in post meta for performance. One last thing, can you please show me screenshot of of wp_ap_meta table?

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Hi, the same thing happened to me! All counters were resetted! How can I restore it or just disable the views counter?

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Here,
Paste this code to your functions.php and make sure to remove it after first execution

https://gist.github.com/rahularyan/a6c1d2ec641ee74f27202d0124f6cff9

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What do you mean by run it? I put it in the functions file in the anspress plugin and saved but it was not updated. I also am missing views

Hi Rahul,
In which functions.php? In what directory? A have several functions.php’s…
Do I have to modify some database specific parameters in the code or does this code works just as it is?

Please give me one day. Adding views re-counter in options.

@Rahul:
Unfortunately, I still don’t see an option for re-counting the views. Only for votes, questions, answers, flagged posts etc…you’re still with us to solve this?

Its there in GitHub repo. Not yet published to wp.org

Paste this code in functions.php return ‘Fatal error’

I don’t think this is required anymore. This tool already added in AnsPress. Check in options.

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Hi Rahul,

Hope this helps? Thank you!

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Strange thing…the last view is from April 20…
But what about the views we did last days, these are visible right now on the website? But not visible in this database?

website: http://www.schoon-water.nl/forum

Since update views are not stored anymore in this table. I will provide a function so that you can re-import your views