How to make top posts page, using most liked posts with ULIKE

Hello @usce
You can use the wordpress query in your theme. (Please read the plugin FAQ document)

Hi Alimir,

I just read FAQ and I found a code for that but I don’t know how to integrate it with my page. How to make that top 100 liked be on my top 100 page?

Do I need to put <?php
$the_query = new WP_Query(array(
‘post_status’ =>’published’,
‘post_type’ =>’post’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’,
‘meta_key’ => ‘_liked’,
‘paged’ => (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1
));
?>
in php. fucntions or??

Thank you on help!

I just put that code in my functions.php and nothing changed? So do i need it to modify or something?

Hi @usce

Please read the following documents:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/query_posts

Ok i we read and I came to consclusion i can make multiple querys, but that will make my posts sorted by likes. Can I make it that on my main page homepage, be everything with normal loop, BUT that most liked post’s from my homepage be on my top page.

Is that meanning that i need to make multiple loops and somehow apply another loop to my top100 page for example?

Hi @usce
Try these codes in your function.php file:

add_filter('posts_join', 'wp_ulike_new_join' );
function wp_ulike_new_join($join){
	if(is_home()){
		global $wpdb;
		$join .= "	LEFT JOIN (
					SELECT *
					FROM ".$wpdb->prefix."postmeta
					WHERE meta_key =  '_liked' ) AS metasort
					ON ".$wpdb->prefix."posts.ID = metasort.post_id";
	}
	return ($join);
}

add_filter('posts_orderby', 'wp_ulike_new_order' );
function wp_ulike_new_order( $orderby ){
	if(is_home()){
		global $wpdb;
		$orderby = "metasort.meta_value DESC";
	}
 	return $orderby;
}

hi Alimir, I readed the FAQ, and it worked with your last code in this thread (I put it in functions.php) but then I have a problem:

I have a widget with the “Latest posts” ordered by date, but when I use your code the widget posts are ordered by likes/votes too, not by date.

So my question is: where I have to put the code to affect only the home page and not the widgets or other sections of the blog.

I tried on content.php but cant make it work. I would appreciate your help,and ofc I will buy the premium version or donate when its avaliable. This is the best rating plugin I found after hours trying lots of other plugins.

Thanks!

hey finally it worked for me, just made a new page template and used the FAQ code:

<?php
    $the_query = new WP_Query(array(
    'post_status' =>'published',
    'post_type' =>'post',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'meta_key' => '_liked',
    'paged' => (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1
    ));
?>

By the way, theres a tiny typo in the code: published should be publish in the query. ??

Hi @hicks78

glad to hear the problem is fixed ??
Thanks for your feedback. I’ll fix this typo in the next update.