sort by rating does not show posts without rating

[ghost]

Hi Lester,

first off let me thank you for this great plugin - great work!

I am not sure whether I am posting correct here or not, whether this truly is an issue or not:

I am sorting my custom posts by their average rating (works like a charm; I use setting the meta_key attribute in $query) - however the result-list contains only those posts that actually have a rating.

There is a page which tries to change this (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-postratings-wp_query-sorting-by-rating-not-showing-un-rated-posts) but that does not work in my hands.

So my question is: do you have any idea how to keep the sorting and also show the non-rated posts at the end of the list?

Many thanks in advance and kind regards,
Frank

[lesterchan]

I thought of it before, but I can't find a way around it because those posts are created before WP-PostRatings is being activated.

The only way I can think of is manually add those ratings in.

[ghost]

Thank you very much for your immediate reply! I will try that. Cheers! Frank

[lesterchan]

I will leave this bug open since it is a bug. Hope more people can chime in on a better way to fix it =)

[Aristotle22]

Just take a custom loop and LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query