Changing Post display order?

  • I would like to have the post ORDERED BY catagory(ID),post(ID) when they on displayed on the index page?

    Which PHP file is the SQL statement in?

    tia,
    david

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  • You don’t have to edit core files to accomplish this. You can customize the query right in your template.

    Study https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop and wp-db.php to understand the WP_Query class.

    Thread Starter davidjackson

    (@davidjackson)

    sketloac —
    Thanks for you reply, but you’ll have to excuse me a more-or-less just a ol’ database hacker, not a php progammer…

    I’ve looked in template-functions-catatory.php and and it looks like catagory id is used as sort order, when displaying posts?

    About line# 265:

    if (intval($categories)==0){
    $sort_column = ‘cat_’.$sort_column;

    $query = “
    SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_description, category_parent
    FROM $wpdb->categories
    WHERE cat_ID > 0 $exclusions
    ORDER BY $sort_column $sort_order”;

    $categories = $wpdb->get_results($query);
    }

    I should probably try it before piping up, but what if you followed the example here

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Alphabetizing_Posts

    but with &orderby=cat_ID,postID ?

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