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Anonymous
(Private) December 21, 2016 at 4:36 pm #78034

Hi, is there any more documentation on this?

Trevor
(Private) December 21, 2016 at 5:29 pm #78052

I am unsure what you are asking Dann. Could you elaborate for me?

Trevor
(Private) December 21, 2016 at 5:31 pm #78054

I split this thread from this original (now closed):

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/sorting-by-popularity/

Anonymous
(Private) December 21, 2016 at 5:31 pm #78056

Hi, I want my sort order to be ordered by popularity. The more popular the post the higher up it appears…

Trevor
(Private) December 21, 2016 at 5:34 pm #78067

How do you decide which post is popular? Do you have a plugin that has ranking? In which case, there should be meta data attached to the posts that has this in, and S&F Pro can sort by this meta key.

Anonymous
(Private) January 2, 2017 at 12:11 pm #79504

Hi, I thought I would update this thread with the solution I have found:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-track-popular-posts-by-views-in-wordpress-without-a-plugin/

… adding this adds a numeric ‘post view counter’ in the custom fields.

this can then be selected as:
Sort By:
Meta Value > Meta Value Key > wpb_track_post_views (Sort type: numeric)

this works a treat. Make sure to visit the pages/posts though as the numeric data doesnt kick into the pages/ posts until they are viewed at least once and results in a 0 display result if they have never been viewed since implmenting the page count!

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