Sorting ACF repeater fields by WP ULike popularity

I have a unique use case for this plugin, I believe. I am using it to allow users to favorite a custom post type but also I am using it to allow them to favorite different advanced custom field elements within the page. The former works fine, the latter I have questions about.

There are two fields in a single repeater field, Question and Answer. I am able to get a unique like button for each Q&A through:
echo do_shortcode('[wp_ulike for="comment" id="'. $post_id .''. $qaid .'"]');
where $qaid is an integer unique to each Q&A down the page and then post ID keeps it unique to that interview page.

What I need now is to display the most popular Q&A’s throughout all interviews. This works fine for the most popular posts (interviews).

I am able to get all Q&A’s to list on a single page through php but it does not sort by likes.

        $answer_query = new WP_Query(
        array(  
            $post__in = wp_ulike_get_popular_items_ids(array(
                'type'   => 'comment',
                'status' => 'like',
                'period' => 'all',
                'is_normal' => 'false',
                'limit'  => '5'
            )),     
            'posts_per_page' => -1,
            'post__in' => $post__in,
            'post_type' => 'interview',
            'orderby' => 'post__in',
            'order' => 'DESC'
            )
        ); 

        while ($answer_query->have_posts()): $answer_query->the_post();
        if( have_rows('interview') ):
          while( have_rows ('interview') ): the_row();
            // Questions and Answers
              if( get_sub_field('question')){
                $question = get_sub_field('question');
              }
              if( get_sub_field('answer')){
                $answer = get_sub_field('answer');
              }
              if( get_sub_field('qaid')){
                $qaid = get_sub_field('qaid');
              }
              $post_id = get_the_ID();
        echo '<div class="question_container">';
        echo '<div class="question"><h3>' . $question . '</h3></div>';
        echo do_shortcode('[wp_ulike id="'. $post_id .''. $qaid .'"]');
        echo '<div class="answer">' . $answer . '</div>';
        echo '</div>';
        endwhile; 
        endif;
        endwhile;

        wp_reset_postdata();

• This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by weihs5.

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