WordPress: How get most view post posted in last 24 hours

Question

I have this query to get most post views.

I want to retrieve top 3 most viewed topic which are posted in last 24 hours. If the website gets less than 3 topics from last 24 hours it has to retrive the remaining most viewed topics from the previous day.

<?php   

    $today = getdate();
    $args = array(
        'meta_key'          => 'wpb_post_views_count',
        'orderby'           => 'meta_value_num',
        'posts_per_page'    => 3,
        'post_type'         => 'post',
        'post_status'       => 'publish',
        'date_query'        => array(
            array(
                'year'  => $today['year'],
                'month' => $today['mon'],
                'day'   => $today['mday']
            )
        )
    );
    $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
    while($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
    $url = wp_get_attachment_url( get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID) );
?>

How can do that ?

Answer 1

Try the code below:

<?php
$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'posts_per_page' => '3',
    'meta_key' => 'wpb_post_views_count',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'date_query' => array(
        array(
            'after' => '24 hours ago'
        )
    )
);
$arr_posts = new WP_Query( $args ); 
if ( $arr_posts->have_posts() ) :
    while ( $arr_posts->have_posts() ) :
    $arr_posts->the_post(); ?>
        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
        <?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); ?>
        </a>
        <?php wpb_get_post_views(get_the_ID()); ?>
    <?php endwhile;
endif;
?>

By writing the above code you can retrieve the most viewed posts from the last 24 hours.

<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); ?>

You can change the size of the thumbnail (Featured Image) according to your own requirement. Visit this site for reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_post_thumbnail/

Answer 2

 $args = array('orderby'=> 'meta_value_num',"posts_per_page"=> 3, 'date_query'=> array( 'hour'=> 0,));   
 $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
 while($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();