This extension to the RainLab.Blog plugin enables blog posts visits tracking and displaying most visited articles. Doesn't count web crawler bots visits.
3-rd party library for detecting using devices and bots is included with this plugin: https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector. You can use all it's methods in your project after installing the BlogViews
Requirements
- RainLab.Blog plugin
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This plugin is an extension to the RainLab.Blog plugin. It enables blog posts views tracking and displaying popular articles.
Plugin counts one post view per session. Two components are available: Popular Posts and Views.
Popular Posts
The popularPosts component can be used to display a list of top viewed posts.
- postsLimit - The max number of posts to show.
- postPage - Reference to the page name for linking to posts.
- noPostsMessage - Message to display when there are no posts.
You can listen to the following event to stop tracking a visit or to implement your custom logic filtering what to track. Via this event you can check incoming request using this library, which is included with this plugin already: https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector
- trackPrevent: if true - visit will not be tracked. Can be used with custom logic.
- trackBot: if false - web crawler bot visit will not be tracked. By default bots are not tracked.
Event::listen('blogviews.before.track', function ($plugin, $component) {
return ['trackPrevent' => true, 'trackBot' => false];
});
Settings
Choose the method to prevent user visits doubletracking between Cookie and Session.
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Daniel
Found the plugin useful on 15 Apr, 2020
A very useful addition to the blog!
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Thái Văn Luật
Found the plugin useful on 5 Aug, 2019
Great support from Art Gek This plugin works great with blog plugin
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Abdulsalam
Found the plugin useful on 22 Jan, 2017
Display views in the news list. How to make?
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Art author
Replied on 22 Jan, 2017
Depend what are 'news' in your case. If you talk about blog post you can simply do {{ post.views }}. If you talk about another plugin you can review this plugin's code and copy the aproach for another model class
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bzero
Found the plugin useful on 2 Dec, 2016
lightweight plugin, work perfectly!
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Kevin Vermeulen
Found the plugin useful on 29 Nov, 2016
Great Plugin and good support from Art Gek!
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| 1.0.14 |
Fix: bot detection if no HTTP_USER_AGENT is present in request Apr 15, 2020 |
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| 1.0.13 |
Both Cookie and Session methods available to prevent doubletracking Jan 28, 2020 |
| 1.0.12 |
blogviews.before.track added with trackPrevent and trackBot options. Jan 13, 2020 |
| 1.0.11 |
Don't count web crawler bots visits. Jan 13, 2020 |
| 1.0.10 |
Fix bug when post is not found. Jan 13, 2020 |
| 1.0.9 |
Get url parameters directly from Controller instance without component. Using Cookie instead of Session Jul 19, 2019 |
| 1.0.8 |
Fixed error using blogviews with sitemap: check if Controller instantiated before extend Mar 12, 2019 |
| 1.0.7 |
Dynamic category slug url parameter. Only published posts in Popular component Jul 30, 2017 |
| 1.0.6 |
Ability to choose blog category for Popular posts Jul 27, 2017 |
| 1.0.5 |
Add support for whatever slug url name parameter like {{ :slug_some_custom_url_parameter }} Feb 15, 2017 |
| 1.0.4 |
Default value to 0 in getViewsAttribute (thanks to hambern) Jan 14, 2017 |
| 1.0.3 |
Improve the translation. Add MIT license. Pull request by gergo85 Nov 30, 2016 |
| 1.0.2 |
Added 'views' dynamic property to Post model Nov 28, 2016 |
| 1.0.1 |
Limit and link params fixed Mar 27, 2016 |
| 1.0.0 |
First version of BlogViews Jan 28, 2016 |