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1. nadine00
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I was just wondering how I would go about pulling posts alphabetically but with headers dividing them based on the alphabet?

   So for example:

   A
   -all posts here that start with the letter a

   B
   - all posts here that start with the letter b.

   etc..

   thanks!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Might look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/azindex/

3. nadine00
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   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! :)

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?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().
   ?>

5. nadine00
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   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.

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   $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
   );

7. nadine00
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   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.

8. nadine00
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   found it!
   over here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/248010?replies=22

   Just in case anyone comes back to this thread.

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