{"id":6365,"date":"2016-02-24T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2022-09-11T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T14:47:29","slug":"sort-post-types-by-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themespress.ca\/en\/sort-post-types-by-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sort Post Types by Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With this tutorial, we will help you sort your post types by their popularity. First thing we need to do is a meta post (views) which will all you go get each post type’s number of views.<\/p>\n

We will call it via_views_count which will the meta key to get with our query.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n

\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\/\/ Popular Posts By views for Posts\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\nfunction via_post_views($postID) {\n$count_key = 'via_views_count';\n$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);\nif($count==''){\n$count = 0;\ndelete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);\nadd_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');\n}else{\n$count++;\nupdate_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $count);\n}}\n\/\/To keep the count accurate, lets get rid of prefetching\nremove_action( 'wp_head', 'adjacent_posts_rel_link_wp_head', 10, 0);\n\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\/\/ Tracks Views\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\nfunction via_track_post_views ($post_id) {\nif ( !is_single() ) return;\nif ( empty ( $post_id) ) {\n\tglobal $post;\n$post_id = $post->ID;    \n}\nvia_post_views($post_id);}\nadd_action( 'wp_head', 'via_track_post_views');\n\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\/\/ Get Posts Views\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\nfunction via_get_post_views($postID){\n$count_key = 'via_views_count';\n$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);\nif($count==''){\ndelete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);\nadd_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');\nreturn "0 Vue";\n}\nreturn $count.' Vues';\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\t
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We will create the Views column displayed in the post table which will return each post’s views.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\/\/ Admin Columns display posts Views\n\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\n\nadd_filter('manage_posts_columns', 'via_column_views');\nadd_action('manage_posts_custom_column', 'via_custom_column_views',5,2);\nfunction via_column_views($defaults){\n    $defaults['via_post_views'] = __('Vues');\n    return $defaults;\n}\nfunction via_custom_column_views($column_name, $id){\n        if($column_name === 'via_post_views'){\n        echo via_get_post_views(get_the_ID());\n    }\n}<\/pre><\/div>
Sort Post Types by Popularity<\/h2>\n\t
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Here’s the query to use to sort your post types by popularity.<\/p>\n
You can use your HTML to display the results. In this tutorial, it’s only an hyperlink.<\/p>\n
Replace post<\/strong> by the name of your Post Type<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n
<?php \n$popularpost = new WP_Query( \narray( \n'post_type'                 => 'post', \n'post_status'               => 'publish', \n'posts_per_page'            => 9, \n'meta_key'                  => 'via_views_count', \n'orderby'                   => 'meta_value_num', \n'order'                     => 'DESC' ) ); \nwhile ( $popularpost->have_posts() ) : $popularpost->the_post(); \n?>\n<?php the_title();?>\n<?php endwhile; ?>\t\n<?php wp_reset_query(); ?><\/pre><\/div>\n\t
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