Change the post order in the archive view

Hi @markdimi,

The order is based on the publication date of the posts. You can change the order by changing the date when you edit each post.

— Anders

Hello.

Well from what I gathered the archive uses a WP_Query object which has a setting for ordering. Isn’t there a way to externally manipulate query setting and change the order?

Or is there a way to override the archive all together, create an archive page for the post type and rewrite the WP_Query object?

@markdimi You can give this plugin a try – it will set the post type to order by menu_order and allow you to drag and drop the posts to set the order.

Solved without overriding the archive template.

Add the following snippet in the functions.php.

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'new_sort_order'); 
function new_sort_order($query){
	if(is_archive() && is_post_type_archive( "post_type" )):
		//Set the order ASC or DESC
		$query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
		//Set the orderby
		$query->set( 'orderby', 'title' );
	endif;    
};

If you want to change the order to all the posts just remove is_post_type_archive from the if statement.