Changing the Deafult order

Anonymous

#207342

Im tryin to change the order of my custom post archives to a custom order. I followed many wp manuals, but nothing seems to work.

Then I realize that S&F is probally overiding the orderby function of the archives where the filter is added.

Where and how can I change the default order of S&F?

The deafult is date i think. The custom order is not a meta value and it isalso not listed in > S&F> Posts > Default Order:

Thanks

Trevor

#207350

What order do you need to be using?

Anonymous

#207366

I want the archive to sort on ‘orderby’ => ‘post_views’. Based on this plugin: https://dfactory.eu/products/post-views-counter/

Thanks!

Trevor

#207372

It would require that the plugin you mention stores this data in a Post Meta key in the WP postmeta table. Do you know if it does that?

Anonymous

#207391

No it does not stores a post meta or meta_key value. That is the other method some people use for sorting post views without a plugin using meta etc

This plugin does creates a table wp_post_views though.
But we used it on our old site. Like this:
$query = new WP_Query(array(‘post_type’ => ‘download’, ‘orderby’ => ‘post_views’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’));

This simply will sort the default archive on most view posts.

But on this page it is not working
https://www.dl-sounds.com/member/downloads

The downloads are sorted by date. No matter what we tried.

Trevor

#207393

Ah. Then the only way to do this is to edit the query arguments passed to our plugin. Use this filter:

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/action-filter-reference/#edit-query-arguments

And make sure no sort order is actually set in our plugin.

Anonymous

#207512

Ok,

I added the next code to function.php

function filter_function_name( $query_args, $sfid ) {
	
	//if search form ID = 225, the do something with this query
	if($sfid==6178)
	{
		//modify $query_args here before returning it
		$query_args['orderby'] = 'post_views';
				
	}
	
	return $query_args;
}
add_filter( 'sf_edit_query_args', 'filter_function_name', 10, 2 );

But now if I use the filter it is only showing 2 downloads:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/member/downloads/?sort_order=name+asc&_sfm_bpm=0+1000

without the filter it is working:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/member/downloads

I must be doing something wrong?

Trevor

#207516

See this link:

https://www.dl-sounds.com/member/downloads/?sort_order=name+asc

The difference is that I removed the range values. This means that the other posts have no values for that range, and are thus excluded.

Anonymous

#207604

It is more like it does not work with S&F order filter.

If I change the default order of the archive to post views instead of date, it is setting all S&F filters to post views. But this is not the case with the standard date setting.

Why is this? Should we code the core files of S&F? Is it possible to make it work then?

Because we need this ‘most popular’ setting. It is essential for CRO & marketing etc.
We need this for the time being.

Trevor

#207658

In this URL:

https://www.dl-sounds.com/member/downloads/?sort_order=name+asc&_sfm_bpm=0+1000

you have sort by name enabled. Do you need sort by name AND by post count? Surely that would not work?

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