How to display answers by votes?

Billy Bagins
asked 10 years ago

I want to display answers by votes (top voted on top and then newest answers with no votes).
I have added the following meta key and order (in my dwqa-templates/answers.php), but it only works if answer has at least one vote.

  

	   'meta_key' => '_dwqa_votes',
	   'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',

  
 $args = array(
       'post_type' => 'dwqa-answer',
       'posts_per_page' =>  -1,
       'order'      => 'DESC',
	   'meta_key' => '_dwqa_votes',
	   'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
       'meta_query' => array(
           array(
               'key' => '_question',
               'value' => array( $question_id ),
               'compare' => 'IN',
           )
       ),
       'post_status' => $status
     );

Can you help me to solve this problem? I’m just a beginner.

shirodx
replied 5 years ago

Can you tell me how to do this please? Do I just copy and paste this into the answers.php file directly?

2 Answers

Guru
answered 10 years ago

Thats a good dig, Billy!
I will see if I can test it out on my end. and any help from DW team would be appreciated.

BigHug
answered 10 years ago

Hi Billy,
You can use relation OR and value NOT EXISTS in meta query of your query like this

 'meta_key' => '_dwqa_votes',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'meta_query' => array(
     'relation' => 'OR',
     array(
         'key' => '_dwqa_votes',
         'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'
     ) 
 ),

Regards