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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 4:16 am #183383

    Hi again! Sorry to keep bothering you, but you have been very helpful so far. I’m hoping you can help me properly configure my Post Meta search value.

    My desired functionality is having a hidden “Post Meta” value that is just a viewed counter to determine most popular posts.

    I want to be able to use this as a filter from an anchor using a URL. I found that you can do ranges but that isn’t what I want. I tried this and a few other settings and search results seem to want to load from lowest count to highest count and only within that select range.

    The desired functionality would be that I could load all posts that have any value at all in that Post Meta count. Then I need to sort those by highest value to lowest value. I need to make sure that this works so that filtering and search terms still work as well.

    Do you know of a way I could accomplish this? Thank you again so much for your time.

    Trevor
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 11:30 am #183423

    Did you try setting this in the Posts settings tab, where you can select by Meta Key (the default action of this is to exclude any posts that have no value in this key).

    Was the custom field made in ACF? If so, please see this post:

    https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/acf-field-filter-always-displays-0-results/#post-182892

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 1:12 pm #183439

    This field is being registered in the in the theme’s PHP file, not ACF.

    I don’t want this always to be active is my problem. I would like to only have it filtered and sorted descending by post count when I pass a URL query string value (or alternatively click a button on the search bar that would in turn add the query string to the URL). Would wind up having to create an entirely new Search with new template and all to get this functionality to work?

    Thanks again! I know this is very specific but it seems like its ALMOST there and it would be amazing to have it working properly.

    Trevor
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 1:44 pm #183450

    If you add the Sort order element to the form, that allows you to Sort by Post Meta. You could then see what that adds to the URL?

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 3:39 pm #183506

    Great idea! I’ll give it a shot and post back how it goes. Thank you.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 25, 2018 at 6:28 pm #183540

    That worked! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thanks again. You guys do an awesome job with support.

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