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I want to implement 'Popular' Feed. I want to show the series of posts which has the likes the most.

Here is abstract model schema.

(Model) Like 

      user = User

      content_type = Post, User, Group

      object_id = 22



(Model) Post

      user = User

      content = ''

      created_at = '12082017'

In views.py, I want to get sorted queryset like,

 Post.objects.order_by('-like')[:30] 

Since my Post model doesn't have like field, I can't use order_by.

I'm thinking about adding score field to track of likes and current time since then. Do you think it will work? :)

Also any thought or advice on how to make popular feed will be highly appreciated. Thank you

You have something called the reverse generic relation for this purpose:

Reverse Generic Relations

Add the reverse generic relation to your post model and you can get the count of the number of likes and then order it based on likes for popularity based ordering.

In your post model add:

likes = GenericRelation(Like)

Maybe use annotate for ordering:

Post.objects.annotate(like_count=Count('likes')).order_by('-like_count')

You would get an additional field 'like_count' for each post object plus it will be ordered based on the number of likes.