This never worked for me

But using the sort function from a small plugin called sort query by post in in my functions.php file allowed me to pull the posts with the most amount of votes (stored in a ‘wp_likes_count‘ table, in order, and retain pagination.

functions.php
[php]function sort_query_by_post_in( $sortby, $thequery ) {
if ( !empty($thequery->query['post__in']) && isset($thequery->query['orderby']) && $thequery->query['orderby'] == ‘post__in’ )
$sortby = "find_in_set(ID, ‘" . implode( ‘,’, $thequery->query['post__in'] ) . "’)";
return $sortby;
}[/php]

index.php (or whatever). 10 posts per page.
[php]
<?php global $wpdb;
$my_posts = $wpdb->get_col("your custom query goes here, without LIMIT and OFFSET, so the total number of posts that match the query can be counted");
$paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1;
$args = array(
‘post__in’ => $my_posts,
‘paged’ => $paged,
‘posts_per_page’ => 10,
‘orderby’ => ‘post__in’
);
query_posts($args); ?>

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<– do your content here –>
<?php endwhile; ?>[/php]

This may come in handy for someone along the line

Install instructions.
http://tak79.com/xenforo-wordpress-theme/
Setting up the navigation menus
http://tak79.com/the-xenpress-menu/

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images.tak79.com

The idea is you upload a single image (or more if needed) and users ‘like’ it, leaving a avatar representation of the like in a sidebar. It features a custom user profile, user profile page, custom login and registration pages, the user/member never see the back end admin panel of wordpress, they can upload avatars from their own profile page. It’s a work in progress.

Users submit images from the frontpage (or virtually any page) by hitting the submit button in the top nav. A drop down slider then appears with a form for the post.

A custom plugin that takes the votes was developed for me by another guy, this will take the user ID of the person who voted, the ID of the page they voted on, a count of how many votes a user makes etc, so you can bring the usual stats up, what user likes the post, rank the most popular posts, display amount of likes a user has given… it remains to be seen if I ever give this wordpress theme a release or do something with it.

'Menu One DropDown' is just for your reference, and not displayed in the theme..

Create the first menu as above by clicking the + at the top of the menu screen, naming it something that will remind you of what it will contain. Next, we will add the main link and the drop down links.

As the above image create a custom linked called Forum with a link to your forum URL. Press add to menu and this will appear on the left, as shown below.

Create another custom link, this will be the first link in your drop down menu. Here below it was called New Child and dragged so it is slightly to the right of the first Forum tab.

This is important! Remember to give new child a URL too.

Now select which of the six positions you will use in the header to display the menu. When you have six, you can move the nav order around from here. Make sure you press “save menu” on the right hand side of the menu admin (not shown here) as well as the individual save areas.

And with a bit of luck… you have something like this.

Creating single links, without the drop down is done by first creating a new menu, and by giving only one custom link, save it and pick where you would like it displayed. You now have one single link in the navigation. Due to me not fully understanding the functions yet, there is no menu highlighting, I would recommend hand coding your menu (easy) and having full control over it. Another disappointment was being unable to echo the menu name to replace the h3 text “navigation” in the drop down menu. Again, only solved so far by hand crafting the menus and naming it as as you like.

All up you have a simple way of creating a navigation menu, for now.

Features

Here’s a run down of what xenpress has under the hood.

• Nine areas for widgets. Two under the main articles, two right sidebars and four in the footer area. One on the singe pages right hand column. I’m sure that is plenty for now. You could always hard code extra loops in these positions too and separate your categories out on the mainpage.
• Custom admin options with placement areas for nine adverts in the common places, also add your tracking codes and other various theme options.
• Support for translation, although the .po file has not been created yet (working on that bit).
• Individual single.php category based post templates. (The option is there if needed).
• Pagination for custom templates.
• Custom “no avatar” selection in wp-admin/discussions options.
• Featured thumbnails (via wp-admin media uploader & post editor) and excerpts used in the main page article. The except is then used as the header meta on single.php pages for better SEO.
• Cufon font replacement for most header tags.

Recommended plugins:

WP-PostViews – count the views for posts. (you don’t have to install this)
Ajax_the_views – refresh wp-postviews count with AJAX, needed if you use a cache plugin.
Simple Tags – improves on the wordpress tagging system. (you’ll get errors if not present)
iF AJAX Comments For WordPress – AJAX instant comments. (smooth comments like xenforo rather then a page refresh)

Setting Xenpress up

Upload the theme to your theme folder in wordpress and activate it.

• Under Media Settings in wp-admin, set the Thumbnail size to 280 width and 0 height. This is for the featured image that is now a built in wordpress function.
• Under Media Settings in wp-admin, set the Medium size size to 720×0. This will let you post an image the exact width of the article page.
• You will need to open header.php and set your links up, for dropdown tabs extra nav links etc. You can do this in easily the wordpress theme editor.
• Enable gravatars and set your users permissions. (if not using the the xenforo forum user bridge add on.)
• Any questions or help needed just hit me up here in the comments or on the xenforo forums. I will reply as fast as I can.

Posting 101

You’ll see a box on the right side under the category selection in the wp-admin post editor for featured images. Upload one via the media uploader, it will be resized into the 280px thumbnail width I mentioned you set up earlier. The excerpt will be what is shown on the mainpage, think of it as a brief intro or description of the post, next to the featured image. The single page will contain the main article.

Templates/Theme Files

In the theme folder there is another folder called single. This holds the single.php post pages. However, say I want a video page for my category video with a different layout. I will simply create a new PHP file called single-cat-video.php and this will be used as the single post page. Same goes for categories, in the root of the theme folder you could create the file category-video.php and use that as a different styled category page.

Setting up the menu

This turned out to be an article on its own, this is the method of using wp_nav_menu to create menus from the admin panel rather then file edits. > The XenPress Menu

Other Links

You will need to open header.php and index.php and code your links etc, example; the three links below the nav menu, the logout links on the right hand of the nav menu and links in the personal member details that is shown on index.php to registered users. Hopefully the next release will cover ALL these things and use input instead from the XenPress admin section in wp-admin.

Happy XenPressing! Feel free to contact me here, or on the xenforo forums with any questions and suggestions. http://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-wordpress-theme.9163/

Cheers!,
- Damien.