pulling posts alphabetically with headers

Might look at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/azindex/

hmm. That really isn’t what I need, I need something I can just put raw into a template page. so, not an archive of post titles that you can individually link too, but a page of all the actual posts.

Is there a way to maybe do this without a plugin? Maybe multiple calls on a page?

Something that would fit in a set up kind of like this:

‘numberposts=999&orderby=title&order=ASC’

like a limiter, or range.

Sorry, if i’m not seeing an obvious thing here. But thanks for your suggestions! ??

<?php
$last_char = '';
$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
);
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'Alphabetic index of all ' . count($my_query->posts) . ' posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
    $this_char = strtoupper(substr($post->post_title,0,1));
    if ($this_char != $last_char) {
      $last_char = $this_char;
      echo '<h2>'.$last_char.'</h2>';
    } ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
} //if ($my_query)
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Wow thank you Michael. If I wanted to do this with posts from just one category, rather than all of them, would it be something like this:

$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
  'in_category'=>3
);

or like this:

$last_char = '';
$cat = 3;
$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
  'in_category'=>$cat
);

or maybe its something totally different.

Again, thanks for the query from before. Really appreciate it.

cheers

Nadine.

$last_char = '';
$cat = 3;
$args=array(
  'cat' => $cat,
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
);

or for multiple categories

$last_char = '';
$args=array(
  'category__in' => array(3,7,45,2),
  'orderby' => 'title',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
);

bump.

Sorry to have to bother the forum again, but I find myself in a scenario where I need to sort this, and make the headers, by a custom field rather by post_title (client request).

This seems to work fine for sorting:

$last_char = '';
$args=array(
  'category__in' => array(3,7,45,2),
  'orderby' => 'guest_sort',
  'order' => 'ASC',
  'posts_per_page'=>-1,
  'caller_get_posts'=>1
);

But I’m not sure how to figure out getting the headers to use the custom field as well.
I tried this:
$post->guest_sort

but that was wrong.

Then I tried pulling the custom filed value into a variable with get_post_meta but I’m probably doing it wrong:

$guestSort = get_post_custom_values('guest_sort');

$this_char = strtoupper(substr($guestSort,0,1));

but that didn’t work. I also tried stringing together a meta_value&meta_key=guest_sort string, but that didn’t work.

$this_char = strtoupper(substr($post->meta_value&meta_key=guest_sort,0,1));`

Suggestions?

Thank you.

Nadine.

found it!
over here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/248010?replies=22

Just in case anyone comes back to this thread.