Displaying Total Author View

Question

I'm looking to display the total views generated by each author on their author page. I can't find any php code that works. Can anyone help?

I've tried using this code:

<?php
$author_posts = get_posts( array('author' => $current_user->ID) );

$counter = 0; // needed to collect the total sum of views

foreach ( $author_posts as $post ) {

    $views = absint( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'post_views_count', true ) );
    $counter += $views;
}
echo "{$counter}";
?>

but the number displayed stays on '0'. Am I doing something obvious wrong? Here's one of my author pages: http://fresharsenal.com/author/olipricebates/

Any help greatly appreciated! Also if anyone knows how to show the amount of shares generated that'd be ace

Answer 1

The $current_user object retrieves the currently signed-in user. What you want is the ID of the author whose page you're viewing. Try this:

global $wp_query;
$author_id = $wp_query->queried_object_id;

$author_posts = get_posts( array('author' => $author_id) );

$counter = 0; // needed to collect the total sum of views

foreach ( $author_posts as $post ) {

    $views = absint( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'post_views_count', true ) );
    $counter += $views;
}

echo "{$counter}";

Echo out views, to see if there are any:

foreach ( $author_posts as $post ) {

    $views = absint( get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'post_views_count', true ) );

    var_dump($views);

    $counter += $views;
}