Custom Sorting not working on Widgets

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November 2, 2019 at 12:32 pm #515680

Dave
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Hi guys,

I’ve set up a ‘Recommended’ in the event sorting options which should put any featured events first, then sorted by highest rating, then by date.

It seems to work just fine on an archive page like this one:
https://whatsonhub.co.uk/events/united-kingdom/west-yorkshire/leeds/

But in the first “top picks” widget on the home page, I’ve set it to ‘recommended’ sort, but it won’t do the same sort order that it’s supposed to (featured, then highest rating)…
https://whatsonhub.co.uk/city/united-kingdom/west-yorkshire/leeds/

Can you help?

Thanks,
Dave

November 2, 2019 at 12:35 pm #515681

Dave
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November 2, 2019 at 1:24 pm #515685

Guust
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The widget is set for the next 7 days only.
The events page has all upcoming.
The featured events are not in the next 7 days.

Thanks

November 4, 2019 at 1:21 pm #515861

Dave
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Hi Guust,

Just added a ‘featured’ event that’s on this week. Good news is that’s showing first in the ‘top picks’ widget on the home page.

However, the event that has the highest rating that’s on this week, isn’t showing next (it’s not showing until page 3).

Thanks,
Dave

November 5, 2019 at 12:23 am #515943

Guust
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November 5, 2019 at 2:48 pm #516004

Dave
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Thanks Guust.

This event… https://whatsonhub.co.uk/events/united-kingdom/west-yorkshire/leeds/leeds-heritage-beer-tour-5/

… is the one that should come directly after the featured events. It does on the events archive, just not on the widget, so looks like it’s obeying the top-level sort, just not the second level.

Thanks,
Dave

November 7, 2019 at 2:13 pm #516301

Naveen Giri
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Hi DAVID,

can you provide any staging link. where we can check by changing data values for events and also FTP details will be helpful.

Thanks

November 8, 2019 at 8:45 pm #516463

Dave
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Hi Naveen,

You can play around with this site just fine. It’s not launched properly yet so everything I have is on here. It’s backed up hourly but if you want to take specific backups by all means (login and FTP details are further up this thread).

You’ll notice too that for some reason, the speed of the site randomly slows down intermittently. I can’t figure out why but when I just managed to find some errors in the console, it was saying it was a GeoDirectory thing. Any chance you can look while you’re there?

Thanks,
Dave

November 12, 2019 at 8:31 am #516710

Naveen Giri
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I am proceeding on site slowdown issue on other ticket.
I will assign the widget issue to kiran. he will be quick here.

November 12, 2019 at 11:47 am #516740
Kiran
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Hi David,

On archive page it uses secondary sorting used in CPT > Settings > Sorting but on widget it applys only parent sorting.

I have added following PHP snippet to apply secondary level sorting to the widget listings.
```
/**
 * Add secondary level  sorting to the widget listings.
 */
function gd_snippet_191112_filter_widget_listings_orderby( $orderby, $table, $post_type ) {
	global  $gd_query_args_widgets;

	$sort_by = ! empty( $gd_query_args_widgets['order_by'] ) ? $gd_query_args_widgets['order_by'] : '';
	$orderby = GeoDir_Query::sort_by_children( $orderby, $sort_by, $post_type );

	return $orderby;
}
add_filter( 'geodir_filter_widget_listings_orderby', 'gd_snippet_191112_filter_widget_listings_orderby', 0, 3 );
```
Please check and let us know.

Regards,
Kiran
November 12, 2019 at 4:55 pm #516793

Dave
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Ok great, thanks Kiran. I’ll take a look.
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