With plugin-list-category-post is there a way of sorting titles by a date?

This is a bit hacky, but you could create your own template and then reformat the date.

start by creating a folder list-category-posts in your theme directory. copy the default.php template there from the plugin’s templates folder, and rename it custom.php, or whatever you’d like.

within that custom.php file, find the line:

//Show the title and link to the post:
$lcp_display_output .= $this->get_post_title($single);

and replace it with:

//Show the title and link to the post:

$temp_title = $this->get_post_title($single);

preg_match("/\<a.*href=\"(.*?)\".*?\>(.*)\<\/a\>+/", $temp_title, $matches);

$temp_date = substr($matches[2], 0, 10);
$new_title = substr($matches[2], 11);

$timestamp = strtotime($temp_date);
$new_date = date("j F, Y", $timestamp);

$lcp_display_output .= '<a href="' . $matches[1] . '">' . $new_title . ' - ' . $new_date . '</a>';

For this to work, your posts should be titled:

YYYY/MM/DD Event title

If the day or month is a single digit, it MUST have a leading zero.

The reformatted result will be:

Event title – 9 September, 2011

The part that’s reformatting the date is here:

$new_date = date("j F, Y", $timestamp);

If you want to change this, have a look at PHP’s Date function for your options.

The last line is reassembling the various bits back together, you can change the order of title – date as well as the hyphen separating them if you’d like.

The shortcode to load your custom.php template and sort by title is:

[catlist name=calendar template=custom orderby=title]

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