Joins in MySQL are not working - mysql

Question

I am a beginner in MySQL and trying to create a join query in MySQL.
My first SQL query is as below which displays the 2 columns votes and post
SELECT votes, post
FROM `wp_votes` where votes!=''
GROUP BY votes,post asc LIMIT 0 , 30
**Second table is where the posts are **
SELECT *
FROM `wp_posts`
LIMIT 0 , 30
What i wanna do is create a join so that it display all records from wp_posts table WHERE wp_post.ID=wp_votes.post, Also have to check if wp_votes.votes!=''
I tried the following but i am stuck on it
SELECT * FROM wp_posts join wp_votes ON wp_posts.ID =wp_votes.post
Table Structure below
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_posts` (
`ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`post_author` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`post_date` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`post_date_gmt` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`post_content` longtext NOT NULL,
`post_title` text NOT NULL,
`post_excerpt` text NOT NULL,
`post_status` varchar(20) NOT NULL default 'publish',
`comment_status` varchar(20) NOT NULL default 'open',
`ping_status` varchar(20) NOT NULL default 'open',
`post_password` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
`post_name` varchar(200) NOT NULL default '',
`to_ping` text NOT NULL,
`pinged` text NOT NULL,
`post_modified` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`post_modified_gmt` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
`post_content_filtered` longtext NOT NULL,
`post_parent` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
`guid` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`menu_order` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`post_type` varchar(20) NOT NULL default 'post',
`post_mime_type` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`comment_count` bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`),
KEY `post_name` (`post_name`),
KEY `type_status_date` (`post_type`,`post_status`,`post_date`,`ID`),
KEY `post_parent` (`post_parent`),
KEY `post_author` (`post_author`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=4570 ;
--
-- Table structure for table `wp_votes`
--
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_votes` (
`ID` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`post` int(11) NOT NULL,
`votes` text NOT NULL,
`guests` text NOT NULL,
`usersinks` text NOT NULL,
`guestsinks` text NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ID`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1052 ;

Answer 1

SELECT a.votes, a.post,
b.*
FROM wp_votes a
INNER JOIN wp_Post b
ON a.post = b.ID
WHERE a.votes <> ''
To further gain more knowledge about joins, kindly visit the link below:
Visual Representation of SQL Joins