Does wp track views for posts?

Question

I want to do a query and sort posts by views. Is this possible? I'm not even sure where to start..

@Bainternet In a high traffic scenario there will be a race condition with this approach.
@BrianFegter not really but it will lose count if a simple cache plugin is in place.
@Bainternet A race condition will occur if more than one connections are trying to increment that postmeta at the same time. I've built one of these before for a site with millions of hits a day and it's a reality. To route the caching, we did it asynchronously combined with memcache. We then converted memcache over to postmeta at intervals. If it's a low traffic scenario, there shouldn't be an issue.

Mahmudur · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-11 04:38:41Z

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WordPress does not maintain post view count by default.

But you may find the following post helpful.

You may also have a look on the WP-PostViews plugin.

Many thanks.

answered Apr 11 '12 at 4:38

Mahmudur
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