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1. jamesdesq
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Hi all,

   I'd like to be able to allow end users to determine the order in which posts are displayed, particularly when using the category template, by adding a custom field, Order, which has a value of A, B, C etc etc.

   The following code works just fine, but would need to be manually altered each time the user wanted a new category:

   <?php
   $the_query = new WP_query( array ( 'category_name' => 'test', 'orderby' => 'meta_value', 'meta_key' => 'Order', 'order' => 'ASC' )  );
   while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post();
   get_template_part( 'content_issue_summary', get_post_format() );
   endwhile;
   wp_reset_query();
   ?>

   I've been trying to alter the category template such that I can create a variable called $cat_name and give it the value of single_cat_title(), then use that to replace 'test' - but it's not working. Any suggestions?

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