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// hook the translation filters
add_filter( ‘gettext’, ‘change_post_to_article’ );
add_filter( ‘ngettext’, ‘change_post_to_article’ );

function change_post_to_article( $translated ) {
$translated = str_ireplace( ‘Post’, ‘Article’, $translated ); // ireplace is PHP5 only
return $translated;
}

you can add this to give your visitors a sorting menu my title or date

<?php $sort= $_GET[‘sort’];
if($sort == “title”)
{
$order= “orderby=title”;
}
if($sort == “date”)
{
$order= “orderby=date”;
}
?>

You can use link:
href=”?sort=title” Sort by title
href=”?sort=date” Sort by Date

Or you can use a form:
<form action=”” method=”get”>
<select name=”sort” id=”sorting”>
<option value=”title” <?php if ($sort == “title”){ echo ‘selected=”selected”‘; } ?> >Sort by title</option>
<option value=”date” <?php if ($sort == “date”){ echo ‘selected=”selected”‘; }?> >Sort by publication date</option>
</select>
<input type=”submit” value=”Submit” />
</form>

<?php $loop = new WP_Query(‘cat=5&showposts=-1&’.$order.’&order=DEC’); ?>
<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
….
<?php endwhile; ?>

Check this:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/allow-user-to-sort-post?replies=3

Thanks a million for your replay, that solved everything.

I really need to say, “Magic Fields” is Wonderful:)

I have made some searching in PHP scripts and reached to a perfect solution the suits my needs, I’ll type it in here in case someone needs something like this:

this goes at the top of the page:
<?php
$thekey = $_GET[‘thekey’];
$thevalue = $_GET[‘thevalue’];
query_posts(‘meta_key=’.$thekey.’&meta_value=’.$thevalue);
?>

this link goes anywhere on the same page:
mysite.com/?thekey=TestKey&thevalue=value>test link</

please note I’m not a PHP developer at all, so I’ll sound baby talk for experts:)

– $thekey & $thevalue: these are variables they could be anything, they are just names
– ?thekey & ?thevalue: these are the same variables called in the URL
– TestKey: this is the meta key I gave to the posts
– value: this is the value I gave to the meta key (TestKey)

adding the query_posts with the “meta key” and “meta value” arguments and made them equal to the variables

The rest is for the GET command to do.

Thank you MichaelH for you useful links, but when i mentioned author I didn’t mean the blog others (users), it could be player names, actor names, artist names …, sorry for not being clear.

While searching i passed by this
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/197405?replies=3

the solution here is using $_GET commands to refresh the page with the filtered posts.

I’m not a PHP expert, so can someone assist with this with slightly more details? thanks a million:)

Thank you monkeymynd for pointing out using the query_posts, but there is still a point that I need to understand.

does this mean that i need to create a number of pages equal to the number of authors where each page has a different query_posts,
then make each name in the drop down list point to one of these pages?

its a styling problem, all your images are having a none HTML uncomplete attribute alignleft

<img width=”194″ height=”300″ alt=”Most beautiful tennis player_7″ src=”https://www.dwhnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Most-beautiful-tennis-player_7-194×300.jpg&#8221; title=”Most beautiful tennis player_7″ class=”size-medium wp-image-482 alignleft“/>

when removing it, its aligned center properly, you need to find it and remove it

I suggest changing your admin post editor from visual to html

Check this link
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

Query_posts can be used to control which posts show up on a page

hope this helps:)

can you post a link to that page, to have a visual better understanding.

Check this link
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

a way to use a custom field to sort and filter posts.

for example:
query_posts(‘meta_key=color&meta_value=blue’);

Returns posts with custom fields matching both a key of ‘color’ AND a value of ‘blue’

query_posts(‘meta_key=color’);
Returns posts with custom fields matching a key of ‘color’

query_posts(‘meta_key=YOURNAME&orderby=meta_value’);

I like the idea t31os_ suggested, using a custom query to filter and sort posts, I have a question, I need to have a link that when clicked, filters the posts in the page according to the custom query. Is there a way to do so?

to have a link to filter the posts on a page you need to create a template page with the filtering code, then link to that page. this isn’t the only way I’m sure, but that’s the one I know. I hope it works for you.

another way similar to the idea of using Javascript is using CSS, something like:

a.editinline{display:none}