Adding sticky class to most viewed posts

  • Resolved carlodurso

    (@carlodurso)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    I’m trying to write a fucntion in functions.php that promotes a post to featured depending on how many times has been viewed. For the views count I’m using a plugin method (WordPress Popular Posts). The theme is based on Roots. 

    function promote_post($promoted) {
	global $post;

	foreach(($post->ID) as $promoted ){
		wpp_get_views($post->ID);
	}

  	if (is_home() && (wpp_get_views($post->ID) > 2)){
	        stick_post($promoted);
	  }
	}
	add_filter('post_class', 'promote_post');

    I’m not able to loop through all the posts and set the sticky class according to the condition. The error I get is: Invalid argument supplied for foreach().

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    foreach needs an array argument for which it can step through each element. $post->ID is an integer, there are not multiple elements to step through.

    I believe ‘post_class’ fires on each post in the loop, so you can just get the views for the current post and promote as needed. No foreach loop needed.

    Just a suggestion– This seems overkill to check for posts to promote on every page load. You might consider doing this less often as a scheduled task.

    Thread Starter carlodurso

    (@carlodurso)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    bcworkz you’re right on both, the foreach and the scheduled task. I’ll look into it. Thanks.

    This is the working code for reference: 

    function promote_post($classes) {
	global $post;

	 if (is_home() && wpp_get_views($post->ID) > 10){
	   stick_post(get_the_ID());
	  } else {unstick_post(get_the_ID());
	  		}
	  return $classes;
	}
	add_filter('post_class', 'promote_post');
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