{"id":306,"date":"2026-07-30T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/q\/306"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:50:00","slug":"my-view-counts-arent-going-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/q\/306","title":{"rendered":"My view counts aren&#8217;t going up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost always this is the first item below \u2014 FAQtory ignores you on purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>You&#8217;re logged in.<\/strong> Views from editors and administrators aren&#8217;t counted, so your own browsing never inflates the numbers. Open a question in a private\/incognito window to test.<\/li><li><strong>You reloaded.<\/strong> The same visitor reading the same question again within an hour counts once.<\/li><li><strong>Counting is switched off<\/strong> under <strong>Appearance \u2192 Customize \u2192 Page views<\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong>Only questions count.<\/strong> Views are recorded on single question pages, not on the front page, category pages, or search results.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full-page caching plugins are fine \u2014 counting happens after the page loads, so cached pages are still counted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost always this is the first item below \u2014 FAQtory ignores you on purpose. You&#8217;re logged in. Views from editors and administrators aren&#8217;t counted, so your own browsing never inflates the numbers. Open a question in a private\/incognito window to test. You reloaded. The same visitor reading the same question again within an hour counts once. Counting is switched off\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troubleshooting","tag-page-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}