Firstly, assuming you are using a child theme the following will allow you to specify if a category, tag or author is shown. It should be added to your child theme functions.php
(code from stackexchange.com).
add_filter( ‘get_the_archive_title’, function ($title) {
if ( is_category() ) {
$title = single_cat_title( ”, false );
} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
$title = single_tag_title( ”, false );
} elseif ( is_author() ) {
$title = ‘<span class=”vcard”>’ . get_the_author() . ‘</span>’ ;
}
return $title;
});
Secondly again add this code to your child theme functions.php code which allows you to specify how the posts are ordered etc. (reoplace “XXXX” with your post type
function my_pre_get_posts( $query ) {
// do not modify queries in the admin
if( is_admin() ) {
return $query;
}
// only modify queries for ‘xxxx’ post type. This code can be duplicated and repeated for multiple post types
// simply change meta-key as required and order as required
if( isset($query->query_vars[‘post_type’]) && $query->query_vars[‘post_type’] == ‘XXXX’ ) {
$query->set(‘orderby’, ‘meta_value’);
$query->set(‘meta_key’, ‘order’);
$query->set(‘order’, ‘DESC’);
}
}
Sorry as you was oldest first last line should read:
$query->set(‘order’, ‘ASC’);
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This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by
hyperbytes.
Thank you for the response! Unfortunately I am getting this.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘class’ (T_CLASS)
for
$title = ‘<span class=”vcard”>’ . get_the_author() . ‘</span>’ ;
maybe know why? Am a little stuck.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by
luna2442.
Also, I am a little confused on how to apply these functions. I made it work without the author line of code for the time being, but how would I show the tag or category?
Specifically, I want to show the author, the category Title only (eliminating just the word ‘category’).
Not to riddle you with replies, but the post order did not work. I want it for the category page specifically. I have a static front page so this doesn’t seem to be working when using the post type ‘post’
Hi @luna2442!
Give this bit of code a try for reversing the order of posts on category pages:
// Reverse order of posts on category pages
function reverse_category_order( $query ) {
if ( $query->is_category() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
$query->query_vars['order'] = 'ASC';
}
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'reverse_category_order' );
Place that in your child theme‘s functions.php file, and you should see your category pages reversed 🙂
For the titles, if you want to remove the word Category, you can try this snippet (also in your child theme’s functions.php file)
function my_archive_title( $title ) {
$parts = explode( ':', $title );
if ( count( $parts ) > 1 ) {
$title = array_pop( $parts );
}
return $title;
}
add_filter( 'get_the_archive_title', 'my_archive_title' );
Note – this will affect all archive pages on your site, not just categories. For example, it will also remove the word Tag: from tag archives, and remove Author: from author archives.
Thank you! This helped tremendously! Used the same bit of code to reverse the archive post order as well. Very much appreciated.
