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1. skunkbad
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm using WordPress as a CMS, and have a need to alphabetize posts, and at the same time limit the posts to only the parent category (no sub category posts). I've been using the following code in my functions.php:

   http://wordpress.pastebin.com/X3kw8edG

   That works fine, but if I try to do something like this so that the posts are alphabetized, then I seem to get every post, even ones that aren't in the related category in any way:

   $posts = query_posts($query_string .
   '&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');

   I got that little bit of code from here:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts

   Anyone know what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?

2. duck__boy
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   What is being printed by $query_string? It may be that it's contents are not what you need and thus screwing up your query.

   To only include your parent category/categories use &category=1,2,3, where 1,2,3 is the comma seperated list of the categories you want to include.

3. skunkbad
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If I var_dump $query_string right before the "$posts =" line, it returns NULL.

4. skunkbad
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I actually checked all of that code inside the twentyten theme, and it works fine. I think the problem is with my sub category template redirect:

   function product_library_sub_template(){
   	if (is_category()){
   		if (cat_is_ancestor_of('3', get_query_var('cat'))){
   			load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/product-library-sub-template.php');
   			exit;
   		}
   	}
   }
   add_action('template_redirect', 'product_library_sub_template');

   The problem is, I need all of this to work like it is, just sorted alphabetically...

5. skunkbad
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   So, as it turns out, when using my sub-category templates through the function load_template, it breaks my ability to alphabetize posts via the method documented in the codex. I ended up intercepting the posts before the load_template function, and used php's uasort and strcasecmp functions to alphabetize them. It's working perfectly. For anyone else attempting to do this, check the code at pastebin:

   http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=qfxHagXr

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