WordPress implements a simple order functionality by default. What’s the common method, to retrieve the menu_order for the current post or page? 2 s 2 If you have the post with an $id: $thispost = get_post($id); $menu_order = $thispost->menu_order; WordPress itself does not provide a function to get the menu_order, so you have to query … Read more
I have a simple WP_Query to get a list of posts of co-author (taxonomy author) order by date, this is the query : $username = get_the_author_meta( ‘login’, $author_id ); $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘any’, ‘orderby’ => ‘date’, //’orderby’ => ‘post_date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘tax_query’ => array( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘author’, ‘field’ => ‘name’, ‘terms’ … Read more
How can I change the order of posts in the admin dashboard, so they display alphabetically according to title, rather than latest first? 2 s 2 If you don’t wish to always click the “Title” column to sort your posts by title, you can place this code in either your currently active WordPress theme’s functions.php … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for WordPress Development Stack Exchange. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I’m trying to query a custom array of posts for the homepage, trying to maintain the order given in the array. … Read more
I’m currently trying to output a list of music titles and would like to have the sorting ignore (but still display) the initial article of the title. For example if I had a list of bands it will be displayed alphabetically in WordPress like this: Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd The Beatles The Kinks … Read more
I have a list of products, each with a price in a custom field stored as text such as “2.50” or “5.00” and I am displaying them on the page with a custom query that sorts by the price: if(!$wp_query) { global $wp_query; } $args = array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘price’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => … Read more
In a custom post type, is there a way to include the “order” field that is available for pages? Is there any built-in logic that prevents duplicate values in the “order” field? The idea is to be able to sort a custom post type by a user-specified order, then alphabetically by a string-based custom field. … Read more
I found this problem on WordPress Support and the topic unfortunately is now closed. I have this same issue… (read below) We have created a site where members can recommend things like favourite books, movie, songs, etc. For this problem I will use the Movies page as an example. The “Movies” page is ultimately a … Read more
I want to use the menu order attribute to control ordering for a custom post type that’s going to be used for a specific purpose. It’s easy enough to add this to the CPT via supports => array(‘page-attributes’) but how do I expose the menu order value on the admin listing screen for this CPT? … Read more
I’ve been modifying the built in WP search using the pre_get_posts filter, allowing the user to sort the posts (including a bunch of custom post types) by different fields. The problem I’m having though is that when I tell WP to sort by a meta value it will exclude all posts that don’t have that … Read more
