- HivePress runs it on every listing search page from its own
pre_get_posts: get_posts() with the search's meta query (still unrouted,
including its sort group), meta_key hp_featured and orderby rand. The
router declined both shapes, so the lookup stayed native: 2.26–2.38 s of a
2.5 s page at 1.3M listings on dev36
- a sort group (key NOT EXISTS OR key EXISTS) that no orderby uses matches
every post and is dropped; meta_key without meta_value and without a
meta_value sort routes as EXISTS (WP_Query turns it into that clause)
- Verify: PostQueryRouterTest (featured lookup routed, meta_key with a value
untouched), integration 592, unit 704, phpcs, stan; dev36 front-end
- PR: PR-122 (follow-up)
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