Displaying the actual views of a post with functions in the Elementor plugin-CodePudding

I have created an action with the below function and I can display the number of views of each post But every time the page is refreshed, one view is added to this I want the actual number of views of the post to be displayed Thank you for your guidance

/* Counter PostViews*/
function set_post_view_custom_field() {
    if ( is_single() ) {
        global $post;
        $post_id = $post->ID;
        $count = 1;
        $post_view_count = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'post_view_count', true );
        if ( $post_view_count ) {
            $count = $post_view_count   1;
        }
        update_post_meta( $post_id, 'post_view_count', $count );
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpb_track_post_views');

CodePudding user response：

You can do this using cookies. Basically set a cookie that has a lifetime of 1 hour, so that when refreshing the page, if the cookie exists, it means the user has already been on this article in the last hour :

function set_post_view_custom_field() {
    if ( is_single() ) {
        global $post;
        $post_id = $post->ID;
        $count = 1;
        if ( !isset( $COOKIE['post_view_count' . $post_id] ) ) {
            $post_view_count = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'post_view_count', true );
            if ( $post_view_count ) {
                $count = $post_view_count   1;
            }
            update_post_meta( $post_id, 'post_view_count', $count );
            setcookie( 'post_view_count_' . $post_id, $post_id, time()   3600 );
        }   
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'wpb_track_post_views');