Is there a way to count only shares and not likes, or set a different payment criteria for likes?

Unfortunately, no. Facebook provides the data that way, with shares and likes jointly. I guess that’s because when someone likes your page, it does also show up in their profile feed in the form of “I just liked this page such-and-such”, and so there’s a share involved as well 🙂

1) Can I pay my authors from the plugin itself, or it has to be done manually from PayPal?

You can pay from the plugin through PayPal, if you have the PRO version. See this tutorial:

How to mark posts as paid and pay with PayPal

2) How can admin keep track of previous payments, and release the next month payment only if the outstanding is above threshold. If this has to be done manually, its actually too much manual work.

I think the tutorial above will help you understand. The plugin does keep track of past payments (if you use its payment features, of course), and will always display the Due Payment aside from the Total Payment.

3) When users recieve notification the the payment has been sent?

10 minutes after the payment has been processed, just to give you the time to undo a payment in case you made a mistake.

Do ask for more clarification wherever needed! 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Hi Snehil,
there are no metadata on stats as stats they are generated on the fly and then cached for a day, but nothing permanent is stored.

However, you can use the high-level method

PPC_generate_stats::produce_stats( $time_start, $time_end, $author, $format )

to generate stats for a given time range and authors (in your case, set $authors to NULL to get stats for all authors). $format is a boolean that affects the output: if it’s true, you will also get a ready-to-be-output version of the data.

To get the top 5 earners, you will still have to sort the data on your own. I’d encourage you to make the call to the function, printing the result (it’s going to be a big multi-dimensional array) and then reporting back any issues/doubts you may still have 🙂

The function you’d be calling is located in post-pay-counter/classes/ppc_generate_stats_class.php, and it (and the methods it invokes) do have some decent inline documentation 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Actually, the word counting feature is not a PRO one, so you don’t actually need the PRO version to test it out and see how/whether it works 🙂 The PRO provides several others features among which Analytics/PayPal integration, payment managing and others.

Anyway, we have a 30-day full refund policy on all purchases, so in case the Pay Per Symbol addon did not work for you, I would be glad to issue a full refund at any time 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Thanks for the link. The problem with Thai word counting is that Thai does not have a clear separator for words, like latin-like languages do have, and it becomes a non-trivial problem. I see WordPress itself is not counting words appropriately for that text.

Several customers whose website are in Cyrillic-like languages use the Pay Per Character addon, to pay per single symbol rather than per word. Could this be of help? 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Hi Harry,
yes, what you ask is possible with Post Pay Counter 🙂

In fact, the zonal payment system allows you to achieve exactly that.
You may want to have a look at some of the possible ways to pay per visit with Post Pay Counter 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Hi Nathan,
I have resent you your purchase receipt with a valid download link. As you pointed out, I do plan to build a small page in which you can enter your license key and download the corresponding addon, if it’s a valid one, but for one reason or another I haven’t actually managed to yet, sorry! 🙂

Have a nice day,
Stefano

Hi Byron,
the mystery goes on. I haven’t done virtually anything, but the issue seems to have gone away! What I have done, in order, is:

• deactivate plugin post caching (from Settings > Miscellanea box)
• include some debugging code in the payment routine to gather details
• see that all debugging info looked fine
• remove debugging code
• re-enable post caching
• (deactivated and reactivated PRO version several times to edit files)

I honestly don’t have a clue of what could have gone wrong in the first place! Please go ahead and try it yourself, and let me know! There are already two transactions for authors Stephanie Marceau and Amber_Woodyard, that you may see yourself (just as a proof :D) and delete. Let me know!

Thanks for all your details, it’s been very helpful in trying to understand what was going on!

PS. For the Analytics issue, I have replied in the other topic.

Hhave a nice day,
Stefano

Hi Byron,
I just want to apologize for the delays in my latest replies. I have been out all day and haven’t been able to look into your issue. It will be first thing I do tomorrow morning!

I am not able to edit plugin files through the standard WP editor to gather more details. Upon saving, it says “Unable to communicate back with site to check for fatal errors, so the PHP change was reverted. You will need to upload your PHP file change by some other means, such as by using SFTP.” Maybe temp FTP access as well?