Title: Orderby=”Date” issues
Last modified: April 10, 2018

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# Orderby=”Date” issues

 *  Resolved [dsnbld1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsnbld1/)
 * (@dsnbld1)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/)
 * …changing post publication dates does not reorganize posts (e.g. 2017 minutes…
   July minutes… had to retrofit pub date …still shows as latest pub in 2017) …Seem
   to recall being able manipulate this before. Do have some sticky posts active
   now…could this be an issue? Thanks
 * [display-posts category=”town-council-meeting-minutes” tag=”2017″ posts_per_page
   =”13″ include_date=”false” order=”DSC” orderby=”date” include_excerpt=”false”]
 * Is orderby=”date” publication date? Seems logical …don’t see any alternatives…
   
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters)
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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/#post-10240211)
 * Yes, orderby=”date” is the publication date.
 * orderby=”modified” is modified date (last time you edited it).
 * Are you sure the post date is changing? In the shortcode you can add include_date
   =”true” to show the post’s date. That might help troubleshooting.
 *  Thread Starter [dsnbld1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsnbld1/)
 * (@dsnbld1)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/#post-10735584)
 * This matter was NOT RESOLVED but had to move on since there did not appear to
   be a resolution. I RECENTLY DISCOVERED the problem and it relates to a plug-in
   incompatibility with POST TYPES ORDER. ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-order/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-types-order/))
 * Since one manually rearranges post order via a drag and drop interface I can 
   see as how it might not play well with others. When i deactivate POST TYPES ORDER
   your plug-in DISPLAY POST SHORTCODE sorting by date works just fine. Unfortunately
   I have a need to rearrange post order quite often.
 * Is there some conditional code that i might be able to add to functions.php that
   can circumvent or mitigate this incompatibility issue?
 * THIS IS JUST ONE EXAMPLE…
    [http://washingtongrovemd.org/meeting-minutes/](http://washingtongrovemd.org/meeting-minutes/)
   2017 TC MINUTES …July 2017 shows at the top (these minutes were added after the
   fact but date of post publication was edited to fit into the chronology) [display-
   posts category=”town-council-meeting-minutes” tag=”2017” posts_per_page=”13” 
   include_date=”false” order=”DSC” orderby=”date” include_excerpt=”false”]
 * When I deactivate the POST TYPES ORDER plug-in it all sorts out correctly (between
   June & August)
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/#post-10736016)
 * I recommend you use a different ordering plugin, like [Simple Page Ordering](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/),
   that does not affect WordPress queries throughout the site.
 * When you want to order by the manual order you’ve specified, you use `[display-
   posts orderby="menu_order" order="ASC"]`
 * The other ordering methods (like date) remain unaffected.
 *  Thread Starter [dsnbld1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dsnbld1/)
 * (@dsnbld1)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/#post-10736382)
 * Thanks Bill…will check it out

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderbydate-issues/#post-10736382)
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