Voting Addon : Default Sort

nickelmusic · February 2011

This discussion is related to the Voting addon.

Hi, I like this plugin a lot. Thanks.

I wondered if it's possible to set the default sort to by Date Added rather than by Votes. I like that you can sort by votes, but the problem is that we have conversations by threads with another plugin (replies to specific comments). What happens is that when the original comment gets voted (or liked), it moves to the top automatically, leaving it's conversation (replies) to be orphans.

Is there a way to default to sort by Date?

Thanks!

tester13 · February 2011

Yeah, it is simple.


***** voting.bak
            // No sort was specified so grab it from the user's preferences.
            $Sort = Gdn::Session()->GetPreference('Plugins.Voting.CommentSort', 'popular');
         } else {
***** CLASS.VOTING.PLUGIN.PHP
            // No sort was specified so grab it from the user's preferences.
            $Sort = Gdn::Session()->GetPreference('Plugins.Voting.CommentSort', 'date');
         } else {
*****

***** voting.bak
      if (!in_array($Sort, array('popular', 'date')))
         $Sort = 'popular';
      self::$_CommentSort = $Sort;
***** CLASS.VOTING.PLUGIN.PHP
      if (!in_array($Sort, array('popular', 'date')))
         $Sort = 'date';
      self::$_CommentSort = $Sort;
*****

tester13 · February 2011

Better solution will be to have special setting for each category in admin panel.
As I need sorting to be specific to each category (as well as voting controls display in discussion).

nickelmusic · February 2011

Thanks, tester!

scoobeee · March 2011

@tester13 do you have a solution for sorting by votes for each category by any chance? That would make the plugin suit my needs nicely. Thanks.

Euphony · May 2011

[EDIT]
class.voting.plugin.php

LINE 140

From

$CommentModel->OrderBy(array('coalesce(c.Score, 0) desc', 'c.CommentID'));

To

$CommentModel->OrderBy('c.DateInserted');

That worked for me, so just sharing.

berdia · July 2011

I made all above changes but Sort by still does not filter by Added Date. It defaults to Votes and filters by Votes. Added Date does not work at all.

Please help.

Thank you.

cameroooon · October 2011

Like berdia, I'm also finding that filtering by Date Added isn't working. The link is triggering, the URL querystring updates to 'Sort=date', the page (or part thereof) seems to try to refresh... but the order stays exactly the same, and the 'Votes' tab stays active.

I thought it might be something I'd done in my development theme, but the same thing happens when switching back to the default Vanilla theme.

Anyone got any clues? Many thanks!