FR: Decrement view counts

[codyjames]

Here's the thing: you built a great plugin with a singular purpose but then you made it work so well for a whole lot of purposes. The purpose I'm using it for is to indicate how many folks have added an item to their shopping cart. However, I'd love to be able to both increment and decrement that number. Any chance that could be added to the functionality here?

[lindseydiloreto]

That's... fascinating. I definitely intended for it to be flexible, yet somehow never thought of decrementing values.

I'm not quite ready to add a decrement function at this moment. This feature request fits very nicely with some long-term plans that we have for View Count. I'll leave this FR open until it one day gets added.

In the meantime, you could probably fork the plugin and add a decrement method of your own. Copy as much logic as you can from the increment method, and just "invert the polarity", so to speak.

Hope that helps! Great suggestion, it'll definitely be added eventually. 👍

[codyjames]

Sounds good to me! Thanks, @lindseydiloreto!

[lindseydiloreto]

Good news! It's now possible to decrement a counter in v1.2.0.