How to order category the way I want it?

  • Resolved Jellelle

    (@jellelle)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi guys.

    I just updated from 2.7 to 2.8, and the only problem I have, is my category list.

    It should show the last 5 active categories:
    <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=post_date&order=DESC'); ?>

    But in 2.8 I get: NO CATEGORIES in my page.

    I took a look here: (but I can’t find ‘orderby=post_date’)

    So the question is: How can I get a list with all my categories, the ones last added a new post to, on top?

    Cheers,
    Jelle

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Don’t even know why that worked at 2.7, but the orderby can only be ID, name, slug, count, or term_group (these are actually defined by the function get_terms).

    Thread Starter Jellelle

    (@jellelle)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    well, I thought it worked in 2.7. didn’t had that many categories 🙂
    At lest they where showing up without displaying NO CATEGORIES.

    So there is no way to do this?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    So there is no way to do this?

    -Get all your posts
    -Loop through posts newest to oldest till you’ve got one post for each of your five categories
    -Then display those posts

    Rumores

    (@rumores)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi Jellelle

    You can also try “My Category Order” plugin (WP 2.8 compatible) to do what you need.

    Usage after manual category switches on admin panel :
    wp_list_categories('orderby=order&...');

    Great addon to override wordpress default way of listing categories 😉

    Cheers,
    Rumores

    Thread Starter Jellelle

    (@jellelle)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks all!

    Thread Starter Jellelle

    (@jellelle)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    For those who want to know, here is the code I smashed together (no coding guru!)

    <?php
$cat_posts = new WP_Query('orderby=post_date&showposts=-1');
$i = 0;

if($cat_posts->have_posts()) :
	while($cat_posts->have_posts()) : $cat_posts->the_post();

		$category = get_the_category();
		$allcategoriesID[$i] = $category[0]->cat_ID;
		$i++;

	endwhile;
endif;

$recentcategoriesID = array_values(array_unique($allcategoriesID));

for ($counter = 0; $counter <= 1; $counter += 1) {	//Show last 2 categories who have been updated
	$args_temp = array('include' => $recentcategoriesID[$counter],'title_li'=>'');
	wp_list_categories($args_temp);
}
?>
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