[Plugin: AutoNav Graphical Navigation and Gallery Plugin] Sorting posts by subpage_title?

Resolved jmlbourne
(@jmlbourne)

15 years, 5 months ago

Hi there,

Thanks for the great plug-in, very useful!

I have been putting together our gallery of posts, and we’ve been creating many new subpage_title values for each of our posts. (We needed shorter, more susinct names within the gallery).

Are we able to sort the display of posts alphabetically by “subpage_title”?

Currently we are sorting by “title”, which is not quite alphabetically correct since the “subpage_title” values have changed.

I hope that makes sense?

Currently we’re using something like:
[autonav display=”posts,thumb” postid=”category:appetisers-accompaniments” count=”100″ orderby=”title”]

and I was hoping to be able to use something like:
[autonav display=”posts,thumb” postid=”category:appetisers-accompaniments” count=”100″ orderby=”subpage_title”]

Can we hack a workaround? Or would you perhaps consider this in a future release?

Thanks!

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/autonav/

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Anonymous User
(@anonymized-126485)

15 years, 5 months ago

Currently AutoNav uses WordPress’s built-in sort function; of which the docs say,

“The sort_column parameter can be used to sort the list of Pages by the descriptor of any field in the wp_post table of the WordPress database.”

Changing that basic behavior to understand custom fields would be a good request for the WordPress core, but it is non-trivial here.

Meanwhile, the values are listed here. You might try sorting on the post excerpt, perhaps.

Thread Starter jmlbourne
(@jmlbourne)

15 years, 5 months ago

Thanks for that, but:

According to this:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Template_Tags/query_posts#Orderby_Parameters

WordPress can sort posts by the meta data as well. So surely if Autonav can pass the correct query to WordPress, then it might be possible.

ie
orderby=meta_value
metakey=subpage_title

Or am I reading that wrong?

Anonymous User
(@anonymized-126485)

15 years, 5 months ago

As a test, could you try this?

[autonav orderby="meta_value&metakey=subpage_title"]

along with your other parameters of course.

Thread Starter jmlbourne
(@jmlbourne)

15 years, 5 months ago

Thanks but no, that doesn’t seem to work.

I tried as well with the correctly spelt “meta_key”, not “metakey” as per my original mistake.

Anything I can change in your code to push it through manually?

Anonymous User
(@anonymized-126485)

15 years, 4 months ago

Could you please try this test version? I used this as a test:

[autonav display="posts,list" postid="category:news" orderby="meta:subpage_title" order="asc" pics_only=0 count=10]

to display a list of ten posts from the ‘news’ category, sorting by subpage_title. pics_only=0 permits posts without thumbnails.

Note, though, that when you sort by a custom field (meta tag), WordPress will discard any posts or pages that do not have that field.

Thread Starter jmlbourne
(@jmlbourne)

15 years, 4 months ago

Thanks so much, it works great in v1.3.7!

I am very appreciative that you were able to include this functionality in the new version.

Here is my implementation of Autonav in case you’re interested…
http://itpleasesus.com/recipes/

Thanks again!

Anonymous User
(@anonymized-126485)

15 years, 4 months ago

That is one delicious page! Thank you for the kind words.

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