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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  December 22, 2020 at 6:21 pm #270806

    I have post meta rating for posts, but not all posts may have ratings. All I am trying to do is, when sort asc or desc, I want to include the posts without any rating data in it. Is it possible?

    When I browse Archive page, I see all 40 posts, when I sort by rating, I only see 3 posts, which has rating data. I just want to include all the posts regardless of rating data.

    Kindly let me know if this can be achieved by conditional post meta data.

    Regards,
    Umair

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    Trevor
    (Private)  December 23, 2020 at 10:30 am #270908

    The problem is that, in a SQL query, if you sort on a key, posts that have no value in the key disappear from the results. The same issue arises if you try a range slider. Where posts have no value, they are not in range, and so do not appear.

    You would need to have a default rating set. So, if the accepted range is 0-5 stars, maybe set -1, so that you can use some PHP to detect this and not show the rating in the front end.

    The only other way I can think to do it would be to have two ratings fields, one for display and one for sorting, where the sorting one always has a value.

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