Category Description for Ratings

What are you trying to do, show the categories (and ratings) assigned to the posts in the loop?

Try it with this inside the loop:

<?php
// get the post terms
$post_terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'branding' );

if ( $post_terms ) {
	// get all term ids
	$include = wp_list_pluck( $post_terms, 'term_id' );

	add_filter( 'terms_clauses', 'query_term_ratings', 10, 3 );
	// get the terms in the correct order
	$cats = get_terms( 'branding', array(
			'order'  => 'asc',
			'include' => $include,
		) );
	remove_filter( 'terms_clauses', 'query_term_ratings', 10, 3 );

	if ( !( is_wp_error( $cats ) || empty( $cats ) ) ) {
		foreach ( $cats as $cat ) {
			$desc = absint( $cat->description );
			if ( $desc ) {
				echo 'category = ' . $cat->name;
				echo 'rating = ' . $desc;
			}
		}
	}
}
?>

Try it with this in your theme’s functions.php

function sort_category_rating_terms($item1,$item2) {

    if ($item1->description == $item2->description) return 0;

    return ($item1->description < $item2->description) ? 1 : -1;
}

And this inside the loop:

<?php
// get the post terms
$post_terms = get_the_terms( $post->ID, 'category' );

if ( $post_terms ) {

	$post_terms = array_values( $post_terms );

	foreach ( $post_terms as $key => $term ) {
		$desc = absint( $term->description );
		if ( !$desc ) {
			unset($post_terms[ $key ]);
		}
	}

	if ( $post_terms ) {
		usort($post_terms,'sort_category_rating_terms');

		foreach ( $post_terms as $term ) {
			echo 'category = ' . $term->name;
			echo 'rating = ' . $term->description;
		}

	}
}
?>

I’ve got this working on my test site, so I’m not sure what is causing this not to work.

You do see the output of “echo ' rating = ' . $term->description;“?

try:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).