Order posts by rating

Now, I want to display on a separate page only the 5 businesses that received the highest score.

I can give you some tips on how to do this, but please keep in mind that while Site Reviews does provide ranking and rating meta_keys on pages which have reviews assigned to them, it does not include a feature to display a list of these rated pages.

Pages are very specific to your website design, and since Site Reviews allows you to assign reviews to any public Post Type (i.e. page, post, product, etc.), everyone would require this ranked “list” to look differently on their website.

For this reason, I prefer to only provide the meta_keys on your reviewed pages. This allow anyone with a basic knowledge of WordPress theming to perform sorting by rating or rank themselves with a custom WP_Query (which is pretty standard for WordPress), or to use a third-party plugin which displays a list of pages and allows you to sort by a meta_key.

1. There are plugins which you can use to display a list of pages and sort them by a meta_key. For example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-in-sidebar/

2. Site Reviews provides some code examples which will help you if you are familiar with coding or adjusting WordPress themes.

Since the Hello theme is an Elementor theme, You can use the Elementor Pro “Posts” widget and use a code snippet to override the order and instead sort by the page ranking:

Select the Posts widget:

Add a Query ID:

Use the Query ID in a code snippet to sort pages by rank:

add_action('elementor/query/sorted_by_rank', function ($query) {
    $query->set('meta_query', [
        'relation' => 'OR',
        ['key' => '_glsr_ranking', 'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'], // this comes first!
        ['key' => '_glsr_ranking', 'compare' => 'EXISTS'],
    ]);
    $query->set('orderby', 'meta_value_num');
    $query->set('order', 'DESC');
});

To use the snippet, make sure that you are using a child theme of your Hello theme, and then copy/paste the snippet above into the child theme’s functions.php file.

If you need further assistance with this, please contact the Elementor support team and they should be able to help you.