order switch on page

Hello,

The nicest way to do it would be via AJAX with no page reload, but that’s beyond the scope of this plugin.

One option is to use a query variable to pass the selected order. The selector can be links to the current page with the [loop], with the order choice.

<a href="?sort=title">Order by name</a>
<a href="?sort=date">Order by date</a>

Then for the loop:

[pass global=query]
  [loop type=post orderby='{SORT}' count=5]
    [field title] - [field date]
    ...
  [/loop]
[/pass]

This actually uses an undocumented parameter for [pass] – I’ll add this in the reference pages in the next update.

You can pass several parameters if you need.

<a href="?sort=date&order=ASC">Order by date from old to new</a>
...
[pass global=query]
  [loop type=post orderby='{SORT}' order='{ORDER}']
    ...
  [/loop]
[/pass]

I would put the {TAGS} inside quotes, in case it might be empty.

Hello,
I could not get it working until I noticed there was an update. I updated the plugin and now it’s working like a charm! Thank you for the fast reply and congrats for this awesome plugin.

It is correct to do this:
[if pass='{SORT}’]
[loop type=post orderby='{SORT}’]
[else]
[loop]
[/if]
because if I don’t give parameters in the url, no posts are displayed.
TYA

OK, I changed how this works in the newest update. When using global=query, you can specify the fields parameter:

[pass global=query fields=sort]
  [loop type=post orderby='{SORT}']
    ...
  [/loop]
[/pass]

This way, if the query variable sort doesn’t exist, the [pass] shortcode will know to remove {SORT} and leave an empty value – in which case the loop will default to sorting from most recent date.

Now it’s working as I wished. Thank you for the quick updates ??