System - Article Hits

Introduction

Site Analytics, Admin Publishing, Article Elements, SEO & Metadata, Analytics

Do you need to alter the article hits on your site? With this plugin, you can directly edit the hit counter for any article your user is authorized to edit. Just type in the new number, and hit save. It works on other disabled fields as well.

This free extension was sponsored by a client of mine because he didn't want to grant employees access in the database (a potentially dangerous action), but at the same time he needed the hits on his new website to match the hits on his old website. Now he (and you) can have the best of both worlds.

New in 5.1.0 and up, you can enter the context and field name to enable disabled fields in other extensions. For example, to enable editable hits in the Akeeba Release System, you would enter the context "com_ars.item" with the field name "hits" into the plugin configuration and that field is now editable. Like magic!

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Exactly what it says on the tin

digglez (18).
Posted on 18 November 2017

Functionality

Works perfectly

Ease of use

30 seconds to enable plugin, change article hits and disable (recommended)

Support

Not needed

Documentation

The on-site video says it all

I used this to: No particular reason, was looking at another extension and spotted this. Didn't believe it wasn't already possible to change the count without hacking the database... issue solved!!

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