Title: sorting posts with pre_get_posts in functions.php
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# sorting posts with pre_get_posts in functions.php

 *  [raskull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raskull/)
 * (@raskull)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/)
 * The following code sorts all my custom post types and everything else — including
   in admin — in alphabetical order. Yay. Except I would like to exclude only “blog”
   posts from behaving this way.
 *     ```
       function modify_query_order( $query ) {
               $query->set( 'orderby', 'title' );
               $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
       }
       add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'modify_query_order' );
       ```
   
 * I’m trying things with `get_post_type( 'post' )` but can’t seem to get it going.

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 *  [WisdmLabs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wisdmlabs/)
 * (@wisdmlabs)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/#post-6424116)
 * You can use the following code to achieve the purpose
 * function modify_query_order( $query ){
    if ( $query->query[‘post_type’] != ‘post’){
   $query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘title’ ); $query->set( ‘order’, ‘ASC’ ); } } add_action(‘
   pre_get_posts’,’modify_query_order’);
 * Here is a [reference link](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_post_type_archive)
   which will be helpful to understand and customize the solution.
 *  Thread Starter [raskull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raskull/)
 * (@raskull)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/#post-6424246)
 * Hm, interestingly, this does exclude blog posts in admin from going alphabetical,
   but does not exclude “the page for posts” on the front end. Those are still going
   alphabetical…
 *  Thread Starter [raskull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raskull/)
 * (@raskull)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/#post-6424518)
 * Well, I’m back here again to see if I can find an adventurous soul who can solve
   this mystery. The below code works nearly perfectly. It is supposed to sort alphabetically
   all posts of every type (both in admin and on the front end), except those posts
   that are blog posts.
 * But this is what actually happens: Blog posts in admin remain in default (date)
   sort as I would expect for having excluding them. But blog posts on the front
   end are sorting alphabetically, even though they have been excluded from the 
   sort.
 * What’s up?
 *     ```
       function modify_query_order( $query ){
           if( 'post' != $query->get('post_type') ){
                   $query->set('orderby','title');
                   $query->set('order','ASC');
           }
       }
       add_action('pre_get_posts','modify_query_order');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [raskull](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raskull/)
 * (@raskull)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/#post-6424521)
 * Me did it. I excluded “the page for posts.” The answer is often found in the 
   question.
 *     ```
       function modify_query_order( $query ){
           if( 'post' != $query->get('post_type') && !is_home() ){
                   $query->set('orderby','title');
                   $query->set('order','ASC');
           }
       }
       add_action('pre_get_posts','modify_query_order');
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-posts-with-pre_get_posts-in-functionsphp/#post-6424521)
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