Redis Post Views
Imagine a high traffic website that needs post views as an algorithm to display posts on the homepage. This website also uses Varnish Caching . So we need an AJAX based post views counter. Now imagine a minimum 5000 concurrent users browsing the website, so we can’t use the default “AJAX in Plugins”
About this tool.
Imagine a high traffic website that needs post views as an algorithm to display posts on the homepage. This website also uses Varnish Caching . So we need an AJAX based post views counter. Now imagine a minimum 5000 concurrent users browsing the website, so we can’t use the default “AJAX in Plugins” as live updates on the backend using update_post_meta will be very painful for the backend.
So what can we do ?
What if all these post views counts will be done in memory using Redis ? Then we run a cornjob using WP-CLI to sync the post views count in Redis to the WordPress database.
Redis Post Views was born.
Screenshots & previews.
Getting started.
- 01You must install Redis on your server(s)
Frequently asked questions.
Installation Instructions
You must install Redis on your server(s)
How can I display the post views in a template?
You can do this with get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), RPV_POST_META_KEY, true); php function
