Custom Sorting of CPT & Taxonomies WordPress

John Cotton answers:

The conventional way to do it is something like:


switch($sort) {
case 'title':
$args = array( 'orderby' => 'title', 'order' => 'ASC' );
break;
case 'show_20':
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 20 );
break;
case 'show_50':
$args = array( 'posts_per_page' => 50 );
break;
default: // date desc - do nothing
break;
}

if( isset($args) ) {
global $wp_query;
$args = array_merge( $wp_query->query_vars, $args );
query_posts( $args );
}

get_header();


Clearly that's a little rough since I don't know what you are using/doing to indicate the filter sort, but hopefully you get the idea.

I say conventional since query_posts re-runs the main query. I hate the inefficiency of that (the wasted first query) so I tend to do custom sorting/filtering ahead of the main query by changing the SQL that gets passed around by the query filters.

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Arnav Joy answers:

try this

<?php

/**

* Template Name: Celebrities

*

*

*/





get_header(); ?>



<div id="content">

<div class="row">

<div class="eight columns">

<div id="main">

<div id="archive-speakers">

<h3 class="page-title">Celebrities</h3>

<div id="top-pagination">

<p>

<span class="left">Sort by: <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/celebrities/">Name<a> | <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/celebrities/?sort=date">Most Recent</a></span>

<span class="right">View: <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/celebrities/?show_posts=20">20</a> | <a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/celebrities/?show_posts=50">50</a></span>

</p>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>



<?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; ?>



<?php

if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['show_posts'] ) )
$show_posts = $_REQUEST['show_posts'];
else
$show_posts = 5;

if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['sort'] ) ){
$sort = 'date';
$order = 'DESC';
}
else{
$sort = 'title';
$order = 'ASC';
}


$my_query_args=array(

'post_type'=>'speakers',

'posts_per_page' => $show_posts ,

'orderby'=> $sort ,

'order'=> $order,

'paged'=>$paged,

'taxonomy_name'=>'celebrity_types'

);



$wp_query = new WP_Query($my_query_args);



while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post(); ?>



<article>

...Some article stuff in here

</article>

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();?>



<div id="pagination">

<p><span class="left"><?php echo 'Page '. $paged . ' of ' . $wp_query->max_num_pages; ?></span><?php prev_blog_page(); ?><?php next_blog_page(); ?></p>

</div>

</div>

</div> <!-- #post -->

</div> <!-- #main -->



</div><!-- .row -->



</div><!-- #content-->







<?php get_footer(); ?>

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