Total Sales vs Popularity
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What is the difference between Total Sales and Popularity?
Also, when I set the default sort of a table to Total Sales, the sorted results do not reflect the actual historic sales of the products. Do total sales only include sales numbers from a specific period?
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What is the difference between Total Sales and Popularity? - In fact, this is the same thing, but sorting has a different implementation.
Please drop me exact link to the issue
Link data added to private area.
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I checked it - https://c2n.me/4e6lldd - products are sorted correctly
I checked our sales quantities for this category and the sort order displayed on the category page does not match our actual sales quantities at all. (See screenshot links in the private area.)
What criteria is the Total Sales ordering using?
BTW, your screenshot is showing a 404 error.
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What criteria is the Total Sales ordering using? - Each product has a meta field - total_sales. And my plugin sorts by this value correctly - https://c2n.me/4e7cfcY
OK. We had imported all of our original sales data and it appears that the total_sales value is not updated if sales data is imported. So that explains why sorting was not working.
You mentioned that sorting by Total Sales and Popularity are the same thing, but are implemented differently. Can you elaborate on this difference?
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Sort by Total Sales:
this is added to the query arguments
$args['order'] = 'desc';
$args['orderby'] = 'meta_value_num';
$args['meta_key'] = 'total_sales';
Sort by popularity: This is added to SQL request
' wc_product_meta_lookup.total_sales DESC, wc_product_meta_lookup.product_id DESC ';
But as you can see, the sort uses the same fields.