My post “Counting Post Views in WordPress without PlugIn” shows a way on how to count post views in WordPress. To see them, one have to either login to WordPress and have a look at the posts overview, or connect to the WordPress database and run SQL queries. The posts …
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After adding a post view counter to my blog (see “Counting Post Views in WordPress without PlugIn” for details), I noticed some strange view counts on one of the posts. From one day to another, the counter of this specific post jumped from about 200 to more than 12,500. And …
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When I noticed some (not successful) hacking attempts on this blog, I tried to install WordPress locally on a Windows 10 machine (and finally did). wpbeginner, like usually, offers a nice tutorial about how to install it including all other required applications (Web server, database, PHP runtime). Following this tutorial, …