michaelbelgium/flarum-discussion-views

Add views to flarum discussions

v8.0.0 2026-05-17 19:48 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.4
• flarum/core: ^2.0.0-rc.1
• jaybizzle/crawler-detect: ^1.2

Requires (Dev)

• fof/merge-discussions: ^2.0

Conflicts

• flarumite/simple-discussion-views: *
• fof/discussion-views: *

MIT

• Michael V.

README

This is an extension for the flarum forum software where you can track how many times a discussion has been viewed.

Installation

Execute this command in your flarum root: composer require michaelbelgium/flarum-discussion-views

Update

Execute these commands to update the extension.

composer update michaelbelgium/flarum-discussion-views
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Translations

If you would like to translate this extension to your language, make a PR in the corresponding language pack.

Features

• Tracks how much a discussion has been viewed and displays it on a discussion page
• Plenty of extension settings
• Adds 2 sorting options: popular and unpopular
• Adds an event which developers can listen for: DiscussionWasViewed
• Adds new permissions:
  • Reset the viewcount of a discussion (default to admins)
  • View the viewcount of a discussion (default to admins)

Media

Normal:

Smaller screens:

Reset the view count

Extension settings

Viewlist

Footer viewlist