[Resolved] Frontend sort order of your results. Order by custom field or other options.
This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.
Problem:
When listing contents on your site's front-end, sometimes you need to allow users to sort the list by the relevant values like price, date, alphabetically, and other.
Solution:
Toolset Views plugin allows you to easily add front-end sorting controls to the list of contents, select the direction of ordering the posts and more.
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I have been hacking through the real estate demo site to create a new project, and it is going very well. I hit a point where I need to add an additional feature.
I am using the parametric search to filter my results. This is working great. The site I am building is a business directory. I am eventually going to want users to be able to rate the businesses, and then be able to sort them by the ratings.
I was hoping for a push in the right direction.
First, do you have any resources for ratings on a custom post type entry? I was thinking it might be able to work with CRED?
Second, I would like to be able to provide a filter/sort dropdown for the users to be able to sort by:
- Title (asc and desc)
- Entry Date (asc and desc)
- Rating (asc and desc)
Do you have any thoughts on this? I am happy to provide more detail if needed.
Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.
Regarding rating system:
Toolset does not include a Star Rating system by default features.
The post you mention uses a lot of Custom Code, and if you are conformable with PHP it can be done this way.
Calculating is not possible in Views by default, it requires some custom code as well
It seems -unfortunately- that for now you need custom programming work which is beyond the scope of our support. At this point I would suggest you consider contacting one of our certified partners from this link: https://toolset.com/consultant/
You will get the custom assistance you need to get on with your project. I can also suggest to locally test some 3rd Party Plugins to see if you can use them nicely with Toolset.
Second, I would like to be able to provide a filter/sort dropdown for the users to be able to sort by:
- Title (asc and desc)
- Entry Date (asc and desc)
- Rating (asc and desc)
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Order By feature on the Front End is not supported or provided by Views yet.
The only chance to achieve this by now either uses a Table with sortable columns (created with the GRID Wizard): https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/view-layouts-101/
Or, to create 2 Views, one ordered ascending, the other descending, and a link to the View, with the Link Title "Order by (ASC/DESC)".
The link simply leads to a new view.
