Displaying Custom Taxonomy Archive in Ascending Order

  • Resolved Tim

    (@thegreentimtam)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m having issues displaying my taxonomy archive loops in ascending order.

    I have a taxonomy called ‘enemies’ which applies to four custom post types. I want to display all of them in a loop in ascending order.

    So far I’ve got this in my taxonomy-enemies.php file:

    <?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
        <?php endwhile; ?>
      <?php endif; ?>

    which displays 10 in descending order. I tried adding query_posts:

    <?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); ?>
<?php query_posts(array('posts_per_page' => -1, 'orderby'=> date, 'order'=>ASC));
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    But that makes the loop only display posts (not custom post types), even though they are not given the enemies taxonomy. I tried this:

    <?php query_posts(array('posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_type' => array('post-type-1', 'post-type-2', 'post-type-3', 'post-type-4'), 'orderby'=> date, 'order'=>ASC, 'taxonomy'=>'enemies', 'term'=>'enemy-slug'));
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    This works perfectly when I replace ‘enemy-slug’ with the slug of an enemy, but I can’t work out how to make it generate from the archive that is currently being displayed.

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  • Thread Starter Tim

    (@thegreentimtam)

    I got it!

    <?php $term = get_term_by( 'slug', get_query_var( 'term' ), get_query_var( 'taxonomy' ) ); ?>
<?php query_posts(array('posts_per_page' => -1, 'post_type' => array('doctor-who-story', 'sja-story', 'torchwood-story', 'k9-story'), 'orderby'=> date, 'order'=>ASC, 'taxonomy'=>'enemies', 'term'=>$term->slug));
if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

    While what you have will work, it is not the idea way. Essentially you are creating a second query on top of the main query. In many cases this will not make a noticeable difference, but for more complex queries, and in the interest of doing things correctly, you should modify the main query before it reaches the template.

    In your functions.php:

    function my_query_modifications( $query ) {

  // Are we querying a taxonomy archive?
  if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_tax()) {

    // If so, modify the order variables
    $query->set( 'orderby', 'date' );
    $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );

  }
}
add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_query_modifications');

    We are hooking into the action prior to running the query, so we can modify it as needed. First we check if its the main query (and not some sub-query we might not want to modify). Then we check if its a taxonomy we’re querying. Then we simply set the query variables we need to change.

    Note this will work to change any query variable, not just order.

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