it makes no difference to the order that they are presented in
In the front or back end of your site?
Both.
I thought I had a problem with my loop in one of my templates but then I noticed that when I tried to re-order them in the back-end it wasn’t happening either…
Can you replicate the problem using the default Twenty Fourteen theme with all plugins deactivated?
Oh god, I can try, I’ll have to recreate the site elsewhere as it’s live.
I was hoping to avoid having to do that (it’s a big site), and that it might be a known issue…
I’ll be back, thanks esmi.
Hi Esmi,
Belated reply, but FYI I finally tracked this issue down to the plugin ‘Intuitive Custom Post Order’ which was over-riding the ability to sort posts by date column in the admin area.
It also over-rides any ‘orderby’ parameters set in a wp_query in a template.
I don’t know if I misunderstood what this plugin was designed for or what, but I don’t think it’s clear from the description that it will prevent other ‘orderby’ parameters from being used.
Cheers,
