WP-Postviews & Simple Edits

[mattgoyer]

I'm trying to use the wp-postviews plugin with the Simple Edits plugin. What I've done is create a shortcode in my child theme's functions file:

function post_views() {
return the_views();
}
add_shortcode('views', 'post_views');

But when I use the shortcode in Simple Edits post meta: [post_categories]  [views]

It displays it on a different line that the post_categories. How do I get it to appear on the same line?

Or if you have another way to show post views I'm all ears :).

[weslinda]

Do you have a link to this?  Did you figure this out?

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[AnitaC]

Maybe try it this way - use the Meta snippets instead of the Simple Edits - http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-meta/.

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[mattgoyer]

I haven't solved it yet. Though Studiopress support had this to say:

I'm not familiar with that plugin but my guess is the_views() automatically echos the content instead of returning it. You would need a function (possibly get_the_views()) that would return the value.

[mattgoyer]

Studiopress support was right. It was echoing it and not returning it. Adding a false to the function returns the value.

So this now works for me:

function post_views() {
return the_views(false);
}
add_shortcode(‘views’, ‘post_views’);

[rcorai]

Hi Matt,

I tried with the code you posted here but it doesn't work for me. I'm seeing [views] tag instead of a number. Could you explain me a bit more how did you make it work?

Thanks,

[mattgoyer]

Hi there, sorry but I don't recall :(. /

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