How to display product view counter in woocommerce without plugin?

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I have a woocommerce website, and I need to display the number of views for each product on the product page. How can I achieve this functionality without a plugin? Is there a way to use a custom function or a snippet of code that can do the track and show the product views? Any help or guidance would be appreciated. Thank you.

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You can use a custom meta field to store the number of views for each product. You can use the woocommerce_before_single_product action hook to update the meta field whenever a product page is loaded. Then you can use the woocommerce_single_product_summary action hook to display the meta field value on the product page. Here is an example of how you could do it:

// Update product view count
add_action( 'woocommerce_before_single_product', 'update_product_view_count' );
function update_product_view_count() {
	// Get the current product ID.
    $product_id = get_the_ID();

    // Get the current view count for the product.
    $view_count = get_post_meta( $product_id, '_product_view_count', true );

    // If the view count is empty, set it to 0.
    if ( empty( $view_count ) ) {
        $view_count = 0;
    }

    // Increment the view count by 1.
    $view_count++;

    // Update the view count metadata.
    update_post_meta( $product_id, '_product_view_count', $view_count );
}

// Display product view count
add_action( 'woocommerce_single_product_summary', 'display_product_view_count', 25 );
function display_product_view_count() {
	$product_id = get_the_ID();
	$view_count = get_post_meta( $product_id, '_product_view_count', true );
	if ( ! empty( $view_count ) ) {
		echo '<p class="product-view-count">Product Views ' . $view_count . '</p>';
	}
}