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1. jfriesen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   I would like to have an archive page display ALL posts sorted alphabetically. I've read these:

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/22801

   but they deal with category and index pages, templates that have the loop.

   Here's the code of my archive template:

   <?php
/*
Template Name: Artists A-Z
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<h1>Artists A-Z</h1>
<div class="storycontent">
<ul>
<?php
wp_get_archives('type=postbypost&sort=post_title&order=ASC');
?>
</ul>
</div></div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

   I got the wp_get_archives code from here in the Forum. Curiously, the TYPE and SORT parameters aren't listed in the Codex for this function:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives

   How can I achieve an alphabetized archive page that lists all posts?

   THX!
   JF ;)

2. jfriesen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Hmm, I wasn't being accurate at all: that isn't an archive template, it's a PAGE template.

   I don't really care if it's a page or an archive, I just need the desired output: an alphebetized listing of ALL posts on the site.

   Can anyone point the way?

   I tried the following, but the result is one link (a link to the page itself).

   <?php
/*
Template Name: Artists A-Z
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<h1>Artists A-Z</h1>
<?php
$posts = query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="storycontent">
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<?php the_title(); ?>
</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p>
<?php _e('Sorry, there are no artists in this category yet.'); ?>
</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

   All comments appreciated!
   JF ;)

3. Kafkaesqui
   
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Initializing The Loop with this:

   <?php query_posts('orderby=title&order=asc&showposts=-1'); ?>

   Should do.

   (Note I swapped out posts_per_page for showposts, which is the more appropriate argument for this. I also removed $query_string from your arguments, as it's not defined in your code. If you're defining it somewhere else, just put it back.)

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   And here is a brand new plugin for "alphabetizing"
   http://www.nateomedia.com/wordpress/wp-snap

   It has been posted 9 hours ago in the forum:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/66939?replies=1

5. jfriesen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Thank you for your replies!

   I tried your code, Kafkaesqui, but it returned a list of PAGES rather than posts. I suspect this is because a page is making the query.

   Similarly, I don't think WP-snap will work because while it alphebetizes categories, it appears to do it category at a time--I don't see any way to configure it that would display ALL posts alphabetically. When I called it from my page, it generated all sorts of SQL errors, again probably because a page was calling the plugin.

   All comments appreciated!
   thanks,
   JF ;)

6. jfriesen
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Problem solved! Thanks again to Kafkaesqui: it was an older post of yours that I just found that did the trick:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/29255

   I copied the function code to my-hacks.php, and renamed the function to get_alpha_archives. I called the function just as you would with get_archives:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_archives

   and it worked!!

   Thanks again!
   JF ;)

7. nateomedia
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   Yes, WP-SNAP! was created specifically for use in categories, but I certainly could modify it to work with pages as well. I'll add it to my to-do list. :)

   (Actually, thinking about it, I think it would only take about one line of code... I'll tinker later tonight.)

8. nateomedia
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   I was right, updating WP-SNAP! to include the ability to work on Pages was a... snap. One line of code and BAM! An exciting world of new possibilities.

   Get WP-SNAP! version 0.2 right here:

   http://www.nateomedia.com/wordpress/wp-snap

9. Kafkaesqui
   
   Posted 7 years ago #
   

   jfriesen, I'm certainly glad you found a solution, but something else must be getting in the way if the query_posts() code I gave above is not working.

10. Dgold
    Member
    Posted 7 years ago #
    

    the wp-snap plugin is neat but it seemed like it sorted by category (does it also do "all categories combined in 1"?)

    So I just used the query_posts() that Karkaesqui provided. It worked on a *page* for me! So I was able to accomplish what the original poster asked for, an alphabetical index of all my post titles on an archives page. I just made a new page-template for it, alphabeticalarchives, and selected that template in the Manage Pages drop-down menu.

    Thanks for the code once again K.

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