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WP PlugIndex currently records Designed2Use GA Views version 2.0.1 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.
Overview
About this plugin
Designed2Use GA Views shows the Google Analytics 4 pageview total for a post or page using a simple shortcode. It is built so a visitor’s page load is never held up by the slow Google API.
How it fetches counts (hybrid model)
A cached value is shown whenever one is fresh.
On a cache miss for a recent post (published within your live-fetch window), the count is fetched live with a short, fail-fast timeout over a narrow date range (the post’s publish date to today) — fast because the query window is small.
On a cache miss for an older post, a background job is queued and the last stored value is shown immediately. The slow, history-heavy query runs off the request path.
Administrators can force a live refresh of the page they are viewing with?d2ugav_refresh=1.
Features
[d2ugav_pageview] shortcode, or automatic display appended to post content / Echo Knowledge Base header.
Settings page for credentials, property ID, live-fetch window, cache duration, label, metric, event name, and post types.
Optional per-post “legacy baseline” to add historical (e.g. Universal Analytics) views to the live GA4 count.
Lightweight: talks to the GA4 Data API directly over REST with a self-signed service-account token — no bundled multi-megabyte SDK.
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WordPress.org metadata
Plugin tags
Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.
google analytics
ga4
pageviews
views
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested with WP 7.1
Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 6.0 · PHP 7.4
Update activity17 Sept 20261mo ago
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Changes recorded by WP PlugIndex
Recent tracked changes
WordPress compatibility7.0.4→7.1
Tracking & source
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