Title: Modifying a category view Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # Modifying a category view * [MC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcsolas/) * (@mcsolas) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-category-view/) * I am working on porting a site over from drupal 6. It has been very tricky, since I used views to build several of the pages and it has several content types. One of them is a tide chart. The view for this page shows the oldest first. This allows the most recent chart to display first, then at the end of the month, I take that page down as the chart is expired. Each year I generate a new grouping of these charts as well. One idea was to manually set the dates so the newer ones are ‘older posts’ and thus display in the right order ( current months first). I have been considering using them as pages as well, but I like it when you can browse from one month to the next. Currently, I show 3 months at a time on the page: [http://crsurfcam.com/tidecharts](http://crsurfcam.com/tidecharts) * How can I modify this category to display the oldest post first? * From there, I can work more on the display of the content. I also will have several other types of content but I usually exclude this one from showing up on the front page. I will address that next ( if I end up leaving them in the ‘posts’) section of the site. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-category-view/#post-6074961) * Hi MC, * Never used them but I hear these plugins are similar to Drupals types and views: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/types/) [http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-your-content/](http://wp-types.com/home/views-create-elegant-displays-for-your-content/) * Without the plugins create a post type ‘tidecharts’. Set the publish date the same as the chart date when publishing a tide chart post. [https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types](https://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types) * This in your theme’s functions.php file creates the post type and changes the query for the charts archive to show the posts in the current and next two months ordered from current to future charts. * With this you don’t need to remove old charts anymore because it will update the archive automatically. * ``` // Register Custom Post Type function custom_post_type() { $labels = array( 'name' => _x( 'Tide Charts', 'Post Type General Name', 'text_domain' ), 'singular_name' => _x( 'Tide Chart', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'text_domain' ), 'menu_name' => __( 'Tide Charts', 'text_domain' ), 'name_admin_bar' => __( 'Tide Charts', 'text_domain' ), 'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Item:', 'text_domain' ), 'all_items' => __( 'All Charts', 'text_domain' ), 'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'text_domain' ), 'new_item' => __( 'New Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'update_item' => __( 'Update Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'view_item' => __( 'View Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'search_items' => __( 'Search Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'not_found' => __( 'Chart Not found', 'text_domain' ), 'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'Chart Not found in Trash', 'text_domain' ), ); $args = array( 'label' => __( 'Tide_chart', 'text_domain' ), 'description' => __( 'Tide Chart', 'text_domain' ), 'labels' => $labels, 'supports' => array( ), 'taxonomies' => array( ), 'hierarchical' => false, 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => true, 'menu_position' => 5, 'show_in_admin_bar' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => true, 'can_export' => true, 'has_archive' => true, 'exclude_from_search' => false, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'capability_type' => 'page', ); register_post_type( 'tidecharts', $args ); } // Hook into the 'init' action add_action( 'init', 'custom_post_type', 0 ); function tidecharts_queries( $query ) { // not an admin page and is the main query if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) { // query for the post type 'tidecharts' archive if ( is_post_type_archive( 'tidecharts' ) ) { // show three charts per page on this archive $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 3 ); // published and future dates $query->set( 'post_status', array( 'publish', 'future' ) ); $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' ); // query for posts from this month and later $date_query = array( 'after' => array( 'year' => date( 'Y' ), 'month' => date( 'm' ), 'day' => 01, ), 'inclusive' => true, ); $query->set( 'date_query', $date_query ); } } } add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'tidecharts_queries' ); ``` * btw: consider creating a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) instead of editing your theme directly – if you upgrade the theme all your modifications will be lost. Or [create a plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/pluginception/) with the code above. * Thread Starter [MC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcsolas/) * (@mcsolas) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-category-view/#post-6075328) * I am using the code you created in the new site. I am adding tide charts to the custom post type. The one place I am stuck is trying to display, what after reading the docs, looks like the ‘archive’ page correctly. The first post has the url: / tidecharts/january-2015/ which works and shows the page. * However when I pull up /tidecharts/ it says there is nothing in the archive page to display. * 1. I want to get that url working if possible. 2. I would like to ensure that it display the posts in the reversed date order. I see in the code, the query is already re-sorted to display in oldest first order. So it looks like I just need to figure out how to display the data that gets loaded in the $tidecharts_queries variable in the last line of the function on the /tidecharts/ page. * This may have something to do with adding a file called archive-{post_type}.php or archive-tidecharts.php file in my case to the child theme. I am not sure exactly how to structure that file. I figure I may need to reference the tidecharts_queries variable in it somehow. * I cannot yet provide a working url, its on a development server. Shortly after figuring this out, I am going to switch the dns over soon.. wanted to get this working first but really I have an idea how I can at least make it work in the interim another way which would allow me to go ahead and switch the dns, then I could post a url .. * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-category-view/#post-6075329) * Do you have any tide chart posts with the publish date in January, February or march 2016? * Thread Starter [MC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcsolas/) * (@mcsolas) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-a-category-view/#post-6075330) * That was all it took, I had started on it in December and .. it had expired, that was the only reason why it wasn’t listed. Looks like I am all set, will launch the site as soon as I load it up with content now. 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