Paginate Wordpress $wpdb Query?

Question

I have this query:

    posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id A         


        

Answer 1

Thank @jaziel matoso,

Below code works:

    global $wp_query; 
    $query = "SELECT wposts.* FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta 
       WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'votes'
       AND wposts.post_status = 'publish' AND wposts.post_type = 'post' ORDER BY 
       CAST(wpostmeta.meta_value AS SIGNED) DESC";

    $total_record = count($wpdb->get_results($query, ARRAY_A));

    $paged      = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $post_per_page  = get_option('posts_per_page');
    $offset         = ($paged - 1)*$post_per_page;
    $max_num_pages  = ceil($total_record/ $post_per_page);

    $wp_query->found_posts = $total_record;
    // number of pages 
    $wp_query->max_num_pages = $max_num_pages;

    $limit_query    =   " LIMIT ".$post_per_page." OFFSET ".$offset;    

    $result =   $wpdb->get_results($query.$limit_query,OBJECT);// return OBJECT

   if($result):
    foreach ($result as $post):
      setup_postdata($post);
          ?>
           

           

        
       

        

Done!