If you are using the Post Pay Counter plugin to calculate and keep track of how much money each author should be paid for their posts, there are currently at least three sure ways to pay authors per visit.
1. Google Analytics visits
Post Pay Counter PRO allows you to automatically pull views data from your Google Analytics account and use it to compute payments. Since Analytics is possibly the most accurate and reliable visits-counting method, this should be the preferred choice. Here is the tutorial on the setup and its working, if you want to know more.
2. WP-PostViews
Although WP-PostViews data can easily be hacked by dishonest writers, and thus is not recommended if you are relying on it for payment purposes, it is a really simple plugin to count visits. Once you have it installed and active, you need to go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (postmeta) and type views in the Postmeta name field.
3. WP-Slimstat
WP-Slimstat is by far the most complete visits tracking plugin I’ve ever encountered. You can use its data with Post Pay Counter by downloading a little free addon first. Extract the archive and put the file in your /plugins folder, making sure it comes just as a single file and not in a folder.
Once you have both plugins installed and active, go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (callback) and type ppc_wp_slimstat_views in the Callback name field.
4. Post Views Counter
If you are using Post Views Counter to keep track of visits, you need to download a little free addon to Post Pay Counter that will allow the latter to integrate with the former. Once you have both plugins installed and active, go to Post Pay Counter > Options > Counting settings > Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (callback) and type ppc_pvc_views in the Callback name field.
WordPress Popular Posts
PPC can also draw visits from the WordPress Popular Posts plugin. Head over to this topic to learn how.
Hi,
Putting “ppc_pvc_views” in Visits contribute to payment > I have my own visits counter (callback) and type ppc_pvc_views in the Callback name field gives me an error.
The specified visits callback returned NULL for a random post – are you sure it is correct?
What am I missing?
Thanks!
Hi Pascal,
last release actually introduced a bug in the feature. I’ve just released version 2.505 that fixes the issue 🙂
Thanks and have a nice day,
Stefano
Hi Stefano,
I am using Version 2.505 and I still get that error. I spoke to the Post Views Counter and they said the PHP callback has not changed since release, so I don’t know.
I see that now it asks for class name and method name so do we still put only “ppc_pvc_views” in that field?
Thanks!
Have you downloaded, installed and activated the addon to Post Pay Counter which provides integration with Post Views Counter, as explained in the tutorial above? 🙂
Well that’s embarrassing, I overlook the small add-on that helps with the integration. Sorry for wasting your time.
Thanks!
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong – I followed the instructions for #3 (WP-Slimstat), but when I check the stats in Post Pay Counter, it just says “Error: no posts were selected”. Do you have any idea what the problem would be? All I want to do is display the number of total views per author :/
Hi there,
try selecting a wider time frame with the datepicker at the top of the stats page. If you still get the error, try to tick the checkbox you find in Options > Permissions > Users can see others’ general stats, and make sure the right post types and user roles are allowed in the Miscellanea box. Does this help?
Have a nice day,
Stefano
Hi,
The integration with Slimstat seems doesn’t work. I have installed Slimstat and the little free add-on slimstat integration code, and also typed in ppc_wp_slimstat_views in the Callback name field. Under the Visits Payment option, I choose zonal system and entered 100(views) $1.00 (Payment), but when click on Stats, the written posts indicate as 7, Visits indicates as -7 (0.00) which is a negative value. Is this correct? FYI in my Slimstat access log it shows some views records.
Replied here 🙂
Hello again,
I am also having an issue with any comments going toward post paycounter pro. It was working with free version. I will let you know if i figure this one out while you guys are on the walkabout.
Hi Larry,
is this still an issue? In case, please open a support topic and we’ll help you fix it! 🙂
I’m looking for a way to pay my authors by visit, but with a limited time on each article. So the articles will pay for only 90 days from going live. If a person writes 3 articles per week for example, can I somehow set this plugin to only count hits on the new articles for 90 days and then stop? Everything I’m finding will total up all the hits on an authors articles that month even if they are old, and I can’t find any tool to track article hits daily for just 90 days and then stop. can you help?
See here 🙂
Hi, Installed the latest version but still get this error:
“The specified visits callback returned NULL for a random post – are you sure it is correct?
I use Post Vews Counter and the addon
Thanks
Hi Don,
what have you entered in the Visits callback field of the plugin Options? 🙂
Have a nice day,
Stefano
Hi
Using WP-Slimstat with PPC
I have installed the little plugin in the /plugin folder but still get an error.
The specified visits callback returned NULL for a random post – are you sure it is correct?
What could be wrong?
Thanks
Hi Osita,
is the PPC WP-Slimstat plugin active? After uploading it in the /plugins folder, you should also activate it in the WordPress Plugins page. Can you check this is the case? 🙂
Have a nice day,
Stefano
Hello, I have activated pay per visit and authorized Google analytics stats also. But its not updating automatically. Its working fine when i oull the data. What else i need to do for automatic updation of visit stats from Google analytics
Hi there, is WP-Cron active on your site, or is it disabled for some reason?
If you still have problems, please open a support ticket:
https://postpaycounter.com/forums2/forum/post-pay-counter-pro-forum/support/
This plugin is not counting the my website visitors.
Hi there, please open a topic in the support forum so we may help! 🙂
Hello, I need a plugin that I will use to pay visitors per content view on my WordPress site, thanks.
Yep – then give this plugin a try 🙂
Hi,
I run ad generated website and authors hve ad on thier post anyway i can count how many ads have been clicked from thier post so i can pay them?
Yep, see
https://postpaycounter.com/share-adsense-revenues-in-wordpress-with-post-pay-counter/
Hi Stefano, I need a shortcode for show count front profile page. Thank you.
Hi there,
you can have a look at our tutorial on shortcodes: 🙂
https://postpaycounter.com/ppcp-display-stats-in-public-pages-with-post-pay-counter-pro-shortcode/