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 file, or within a plugin. This will automatically always sort your posts for you, so you don’t have to click the title column every time. You … Read more
Yes, use the orderby and order clause in your query posts. query_posts( array(‘orderby’=>’menu_order’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ) ); See: WP_Query#Order for reference
Make sure to change MY_POST_TYPE, MY_CUSTOM_COLUMN and MY_META_KEY to the actual values. First, add your custom column. Unset the date and set it again to keep it in the last column. You can skip this step. <?php function my_manage_MY_POST_TYPE_columns( $columns ) { // save date to the variable $date = $columns[‘date’]; // unset the ‘date’ … Read more
The Problem I think there’s a typo in there: The name of the filter is posts_fields not post_fields. That could explain why the title2 field is unknown, because it’s definition isn’t added to the generated SQL string. Alternative – Single filter We can rewrite it to use only a single filter: add_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, function( $orderby, … Read more
Solution from a cross post over at StackExchange from @birgire: The problem is that you run the clientarea_default_order callback too late. To fix that you only have to change the priority from the default one that’s 10: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’,’clientarea_default_order’); to the priority of 9: add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’,’clientarea_default_order’, 9 ); But you don’t actually need two pre_get_posts … Read more
The easiest way to do this is to use a hook (the pre_get_posts hook) to change the order. But you should check that the query is one for which you do want to alter the order! (is_archive() or is_post_type_archive() should be sufficient.) For instance, put the following in your theme’s functions.php… add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘my_change_sort_order’); function … Read more
Thank you everyone for your help! In the end the query below got me the results I desired – which was to show and sort the posts by a custom field of “publication_date” first – sorting by the date, and if there were multiple of the same date (say, 4 marked June 2013), it would … Read more
Understanding the internals The “sort” order of adjacent (next/prev) posts is not really a sort “order”. It’s a separate query on each request/page, but it sorts the query by the post_date – or the post parent if you have a hierarchical post as currently displayed object. When you take a look at the internals of … Read more