Hi Dave,
Thanks for reaching out about this.
This is something we should have explained better. When you first update to 2.4, the views for all the posts will be zero. Once someone visits a post, the view count will get saved in the post meta, and then you’ll see the count in the Posts menu. We did this to avoid any large queries that could cause performance issues on the Posts menu or during the update.
Moving forward, you should see the view counts show up automatically on the production website. Sorry for any concern this caused!
That makes perfect sense as to why I was seeing what I was. The numbers are now appearing, and the data looks to be correct.
Thanks Ben. I appreciate the thought that went into your implementation of this to avoid possible performance issues. Great work as always 🙂
Thanks, Dave!
Stay in touch if you need anything else.