count the number of views of a post excluding own views

Question

I am using WP Post Views plugin to display the post number of views. To do so, I use:

<?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>

This plugin gives 3 choises in its setting :

• Count Views From Everyone
• Count Views From Guests only
• Count Views From registered users only

My website is a private community of authors. I have created some badges that are awarded automatically if some conditions are met.

For example, I award a badge to an author when its post attain a certain number of views by the other members of the community. (I use add_action( 'update_post_meta', 'award_badge' on the meta field updated by the_views(); )

The problem is: The plugin I am using can increment the number of a post views if the author himself see it. It will be good if the number of views increase only when other authors see the post.

I hope my explanation is clear enough. I thank you for your time.

Questions: Is there a plugin that provides this feature of excluding its own post visits from views count?

Is there a piece of code that can be a starting point for me to create a post count views plugin?

You usual help is appreciated.

Edit after S_Ha_Dum comment:

The link to the code source is :http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-postviews/trunk/wp-postviews.php

Answer 1

The plugin appears to be processing the view on the wp_head hook. That means you ought to be able to do something like this:

function remove_view_counter_wpse_102637() {
  global $post;
  $current_user = wp_get_current_user();

  if (
    is_single() 
    && !empty($current_user)
    && $post->post_author == $current_user->ID
  ) {
    remove_action('wp_head', 'process_postviews');
  }
}
add_action('wp_head', 'remove_view_counter_wpse_102637',1);

No guarantees. I don't use that plugin and can't test that, and the conditions may not be exactly right, but that concept should work.