[Gelöst] Can I count the clicks on my custom post type, somehow?

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[jorg-andreasK]

Hi there,

The idea is having custom post type for all of my Ads. No matter about the fields and css, i can handle it.

I want to use a clickable div for it. No problem either.

But is there a chance or work around to count the number of clicks on this clickable div? This would be a great improvement for this cpt in my case.

Do you have any ideas or suggestions on that? Maybe with an addition field "Number of clicks?

All the best from Germany

Jörg

[Shane Supporter Languages: Englisch (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Jorg,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

To understand your case exactly is it that you want some kind of view counter on your ads? So when a user clicks to view the ads then the view counter increases?

Please let me know.
Thanks,
shane

[jorg-andreasK]

Thx for your reply,

Yes you are right, but to be excact, I need the counting of the clicks, the views wood be a additional benefit.

regards

Jörg

[Shane Supporter Languages: Englisch (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Jorg,

For the counting of the times a post was viewed you can have a look at the link below and try the plugin.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/

If you want to be able to count based on a click on a view itself then this would require some custom code to achieve.

Thanks,
Shane

[jorg-andreasK]

Hi therer.

That´s why I opeed this ticket.

Can you give me any suggestions, tips or relevant informations, weather toolset or wordpress together have parameters, functions or any kind of stuff to develope this?

Anything to move on with this idea?

Jörg

[Shane Supporter Languages: Englisch (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Jorg,

Actually counting the clicks on a div will be a bit difficult as you will need somewhere to store the amount of clicks on that div. You can count the clicks but does this div that is being clicked leads to a post ?

If so then it would be better to count the clicks on that posts or rather the amount of times this post was viewed.

Please let me know what you think of this.
Thanks,
Shane

[jorg-andreasK]

H Shane,

Thx for your reply.

The idea is to create a custom post type for Ads. You surely can imagine, that it is important to count the number of clicks. Just to messure the success of each ad individually.

does it help?

Joerg

[Shane Supporter Languages: Englisch (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Jorg,

I see what you are trying to achieve now. Unfortunately for this it will need some 3rd party code that our plugins are not able to provide.

What I recommend that you do is to contact one of our certified consultants in order to get this done. They should be able to create a custom solution for this.
https://toolset.com/contractors/
Thanks,
Shane