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Reverse chronology of post listing

I"m working on modifying a theme that is based on 2010. I want to make the posts on this blog display earliest to oldest, but I don't see how to do this in the theme: I understand I need to add . ...
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404 on Pages for Custom Post Type & Query_Posts

It took me quite a while to find a good solution for ordering a custom post type by two custom meta keys. When I finally got it working, I found out the pagination no longer works. I've tried dozens ...
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wp_query orderby value not from meta_value

I'm using the myreviewplugin to add ratings to posts. I'm now working on the posts loop and customising the query using wp_query. Everything is working fine, but I need to expand the orderby ...
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Scheduled Post Meta Update in Wordpress

I have a system that sums up values from various sources and pass those to post_meta in order to query posts in accordance with the order of meta_value_num. I was successful at passing those value to ...
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Custom loop of a single category, cannot order by date. What am I missing?

I'm going nuts. All I have is a simple loop on the home page of the site (which is a static page), and it should show the most recent (1) post of a certain category. The trouble is no matter what i ...
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How to query different post types in specific order?

I have 3 posts types, articles, news and tips. On the home page I want to query 20 posts in this order: article, article, news, news, tip, ...// same order again until 20 If I use a custom query ...
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Specify strict 'order by' in WordPress query

I have a custom post type called Employees where an employee's name is the post_title of each post. I am trying to figure out how I would sort the post_title column by last name. So for instance, if ...
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Wp_query: sort by PHP variable

Here is my problem: For my articles, I use a custom post type "exhibitions" and posts for all other news. I am displaying them in one query ['post_type' = array('exhibitions','posts')]. The orderby ...
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WP_Query orderby not working with meta_value_num and menu_order

I have made a custom post type (sidebar_element) which are shown on sidebar. On each sidebar element admin can choose where in sidebar should that element be shown, ie. 'top', 'middle' or 'bottom', ...
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reorder a WP_Query, using a dropdown

I have the following loop used to display posts by category & I would like to to re-order them based on a dropdown selector if (!isset($qry)) $qry = new ...
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WP_Query orderby breaks when using AJAX?

I'm running in to a bit of a problem. I have a function called get_press(), it retrieves newest press items. It is inside of a plugin: class EWPress { function __construct() { ...
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How can I sort posts by the date and a custom meta field?

I have custom meta field that I use for the post rating. So I want to display posts by the date and the rating, but only for the posts that have specific rating. For example, I want to display posts ...
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WP_Query ordered by custom field that is a date string?

Each of my posts have a single custom field that is a string of a date (not the date of the post). Instead of my theme's current query, which orders by published date, I want to order by this custom ...
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WP_Query -> sort results by relevance (= most tags / taxonomy terms in common)

I'm trying to write a new "related posts" widget (for the single post view) for my custom post type, filtering by custom taxonomy terms that the related posts should have in common with the current ...
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WP_Query post at custom position

Lets say I have a custom query which based on two custom post types: $wp_query = new WP_Query(array( 'post_type' => array('post-type-1', 'post-type-2'), 'post_status' => ...
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How to Order a list of taxonomies? orderby?

I am using this code to fetch a list of child taxonomies. I want the order displayed to be alphabetical, but it is not! Any help in figuring out how to do it? I guess ordering it before returning it ...
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How do I sort posts with multiple pages

I am using a drop-down to sort posts by title, meta_value, etc. However, the sorting feature only works on the first page. The second page displays the default order rather than continuing the order ...
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Order posts by ID in the given order

In the back-office of my theme, the users can choose which posts to display in the front page, and they can also choose in which order the selected posts should appear. I have tried like this: ...
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query order by date on custom type: wrong order

I know there are very similar questions ans answers out there already, but I simply cannot get my query to get into the right order. I have a custom post type ("bb_articles") with custom fields, ...
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Query Posts in a Predefined Order

I am using the query_posts function to list a 10 specific posts which lookup by post id. I have an array which looks like this.. Array ( [0] => 17983 [1] => 17932 [2] => 18030 ...
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WP_Query - filter by multiple meta values and order by other meta values

I'm trying to query posts using WP_Query and meta_query parameters: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'produkty', 'meta_query' => array( 'relation' => 'AND', ...
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Order by meta values

I have 3 meta fields related to dates: year = 2012 release_date = 14 November 2012 release_date_db = 20121114 I need to show the posts from year 2012 sorted by release_date. I made this: ...
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how to retrieve WP_Query without ordering by date [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Orderby = none not working I want to use $query = new WP_Query( 'post__in' => array( 2, 5, 12, 14, 20 ) ) ); to retrieve posts by ID, I do and the result ordered by ...
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Secondary Sort (fallback) for WP_Query

What I'm after is creating a secondary (or default) orderby option for a custom query. Here is what I have: $post_args = array( 'post_type' => $taxfunc_post_type, 'meta_key' => ...
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Orderby = none not working

I'm trying to set 'orderby = none' to my loop but it is not working. Here's my code: $query = new WP_Query(array('showposts'=>2, 'post__in' => array(99,4,5,2,8,55), 'orderby'=>'none')); ...
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Multiple Orderby's using random order WP_Query

Here is the setup. The site in question is a website that displays listings. Each listing has a rank (1-3). Basically it's a listing type... small, medium & large to determine how much the ...
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Trying to perform complex custom field query with order by set to field value

I've got two custom fields for event posts: event-start and event-end. When I'm querying for current events, I'd like to show any post where the event-start OR the event-end is greater than or equal ...
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How to order posts by meta_value and title

How do you order products in WooCommerce so that products are random, but at the same time featured products show first? Here is my code: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', ...
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How to order posts tag by tag?

I want to order my posts by tags with only one WP_Query() In my WP_Query I would like to display 2 posts with tags portrait 2 posts with tags paysage 2 posts with tags portrait 2 posts with tags ...
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Order Posts by Closest Numeric Values

I'm using custom post types to display properties and have a custom price field assigned to each post. On the property page I want to display a list of four similarly priced properties, two less than ...
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Ascending order has strange effects on wordpress loop

I have a custom loop: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'symposia_program', 'taxonomy' => 'days', 'term' => 'day-1', 'order' => 'ASC' ); $query = new WP_Query($args); if ( ...
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Custom WP_Query breaks default behaviour of viewing right post associated with tax-term!

I have a custom-taxonomy for a custom-post-type just like categories. I've used the standard loop in my taxonomy-event_type.php template so far … if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : ...
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Order by title without taking into account 'the'

I currently have episodes from a TV Show that feature bands playing, so for example I have: Moby The Dandy Warhols The Kooks My wp_query looks like this: $loop = new WP_Query(array('post_type' ...
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orderby ignored by wp_query

With the following code, I do not get the result set ordered by titles. No matter what values I give to 'orderby' and 'order', I get the same ordering. The parameters seem to be ignored (or ...
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WP_Query - Order results by meta value

I've checked around and haven't seen an answer which works as of yet. I have a WP_Query with the following arguements: $args = array( 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => ...
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WP_query 'orderby=none' Problem

I have another database which stores post's IDs and I want do display them using WP_query to use the WP default pagination. I'm using orderby => none to preserve the original order, but the result ...
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Sorting posts DESC based on the number of comments using WP_Query

I have this unusual requirement from my client that I need to accommodate. They want to be able to view the posts with the largest number of comments first. At first I thought using a custom select ...