Order BY Most Liked And Published Between Previous Week Monday And Next Week Monday

Question

I have a code which sorts the content by most liked, but I would like it to show the most liked in between previous week monday and next week monday. And the posts must be published in that time frame. Tho I have no idea how to sort by published date and most liked in that time frame. Grateful for help if anyone can. Using Ulike plugin to pull likes.

$loop = new WP_Query(
    array(
        'posts_per_page' => 6,
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'meta_key' => '_liked',
            'date_query' => array(
            array(
                'after' => strtotime( 'monday previous week' ),
                'before' => strtotime( 'monday next week' )
            ),
        ),
        'paged' => (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1
    )
);
while ($loop -> have_posts()) : $loop -> the_post();

Answer 1

WordPress allows multiple orders with the orderby parameter. https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

'meta_key' => '_liked', // You do it well
'orderby'  => array('meta_value_num' => 'DESC', 'date' => 'DESC'),

Here you tell WordPress to sort by "bigger" likes and last publish date.