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See Who Viewed Your Story

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When the site owner turns on Show Story Viewers (Integrations tab), members can see who watched each of their stories. Only the author sees this list.

  • From your profile, open the Stories tab. The page is titled Your stories.
  • Or, while watching your own story, tap the eye and view count at the bottom.

Pick a story from the thumbnails to see its viewers.

Every viewer is one compact row:

  • their photo and name, linking to their profile;
  • when they saw it, for example “Seen 2 hours ago”;
  • a heart, red when they liked it;
  • on BuddyPress, a Message button when private messaging is active. On PeepSo, the member’s usual buttons, such as Add Friend.

The most recent viewers are listed first. A viewer who watches again keeps the time they first saw it.

The list shows 20 viewers at a time on BuddyPress and 10 on PeepSo. Load more adds the next set in the same style until everyone is listed. Developers can change the page size with the wp_stories_viewers_per_page filter (BuddyPress) or wp_stories_PeepSoUser_per_page (PeepSo).

A story nobody has watched yet shows “This story hasn’t been viewed yet”.