Showing Content of Top Voted Post

Hey there,

Yes it’s posible but you’ll have to code a little.

You need to override the thumbs_rating_top_func() function and print whatever you want in it.

Try pasting this into your functions.php

function thumbs_rating_top_func( $atts ) {

		$return = '';

		// Parameters accepted

		extract( shortcode_atts( array(
			'type' => 'positive',
			'posts_per_page' => 5,
			'category' => '',
			'show_votes' => 'yes',
			'post_type' => 'any',
			'show_both' => 'no'
		), $atts ) );

		// Check wich meta_key the user wants

		if( $type == 'positive' ){ 

				$meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_up';
				$other_meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_down';
				$sign = "+";
				$other_sign = "-";
		}
		else{
				$meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_down';
				$other_meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_up';
				$sign = "-";
				$other_sign = "+";
		}

		// Build up the args array

	    $args = array (
	    	'post_type' 			 => $post_type,
			'post_status'            => 'publish',
			'cat'                    => $category,
			'pagination'             => false,
			'posts_per_page'         => $posts_per_page,
			'cache_results'          => true,
			'meta_key'	=> $meta_key,
			'orderby'	=> 'meta_value'
		);

		// Get the posts

		$thumbs_ratings_top_query = new WP_Query($args);

		// Build the post list

		if($thumbs_ratings_top_query->have_posts()) : 		

			$return .= '<ol class="thumbs-rating-top-list">';

			while($thumbs_ratings_top_query->have_posts()){

				$thumbs_ratings_top_query->the_post(); 

				$return .= '<li>';

				$return .= get_the_content();

				$return .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . '</a>';				

				if( $show_votes == "yes" ){

					// Get the votes

					$meta_values = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $meta_key);

					// Add the votes to the HTML				

						$return .= ' (' . $sign;

						if( sizeof($meta_values) > 0){

							$return .= $meta_values[0];	

						}else{

							$return .= "0";
						}						

						// Show the other votes if needed

						if( $show_both == 'yes' ){

							$other_meta_values = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $other_meta_key);

							$return .= " " . $other_sign;

							if( sizeof($other_meta_values) > 0){

								$return .= $other_meta_values[0];

							}else{

								$return .= "0";
							}
						}

						$return .= ')';

					}
				}

				$return .= '</li>';					

			$return .= '</ol>';

			// Reset the post data or the sky will fall

			wp_reset_postdata();

		endif; 

		return $return;
	}

Hi there,

I just noticed that my previous comment is wrong, the code will break the theme.

So here’s the code that actually works:

function my_thumbs_rating_top_func( $atts ) {

		$return = '';

		// Parameters accepted

		extract( shortcode_atts( array(
			'type' => 'positive',
			'posts_per_page' => 5,
			'category' => '',
			'show_votes' => 'yes',
			'post_type' => 'any',
			'show_both' => 'no'
		), $atts ) );

		// Check wich meta_key the user wants

		if( $type == 'positive' ){ 

				$meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_up';
				$other_meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_down';
				$sign = "+";
				$other_sign = "-";
		}
		else{
				$meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_down';
				$other_meta_key = '_thumbs_rating_up';
				$sign = "-";
				$other_sign = "+";
		}

		// Build up the args array

	    $args = array (
	    	'post_type' 			 => $post_type,
			'post_status'            => 'publish',
			'cat'                    => $category,
			'pagination'             => false,
			'posts_per_page'         => $posts_per_page,
			'cache_results'          => true,
			'meta_key'	=> $meta_key,
			'orderby'	=> 'meta_value'
		);

		// Get the posts

		$thumbs_ratings_top_query = new WP_Query($args);

		// Build the post list

		if($thumbs_ratings_top_query->have_posts()) : 		

			$return .= '<ol class="thumbs-rating-top-list">';

			while($thumbs_ratings_top_query->have_posts()){

				$thumbs_ratings_top_query->the_post(); 

				$return .= '<li>';

				$return .= get_the_content();

				$return .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_the_title() . ' 123</a>';				

				if( $show_votes == "yes" ){

					// Get the votes

					$meta_values = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $meta_key);

					// Add the votes to the HTML				

						$return .= ' (' . $sign;

						if( sizeof($meta_values) > 0){

							$return .= $meta_values[0];	

						}else{

							$return .= "0";
						}						

						// Show the other votes if needed

						if( $show_both == 'yes' ){

							$other_meta_values = get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), $other_meta_key);

							$return .= " " . $other_sign;

							if( sizeof($other_meta_values) > 0){

								$return .= $other_meta_values[0];

							}else{

								$return .= "0";
							}
						}

						$return .= ')';

					}
				}

				$return .= '</li>';					

			$return .= '</ol>';

			// Reset the post data or the sky will fall

			wp_reset_postdata();

		endif; 

		return $return;
	}

	add_shortcode( 'my_thumbs_rating_top', 'my_thumbs_rating_top_func' );

What we’re doing here is create a new shortcode. To use it you’d have to use it like this:

[my_thumbs_rating_top type="positive" posts_per_page="10" post_type="post" show_votes="no"]

As you can see the shortcode is now called: my_thumbs_rating_top

Sorry about that, enjoy ??