order by (skip first word)
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Hey,
My PHP is too week.
I’m using shortcode “[catlist offset=0 taxonomy=’portfolio_category’ terms=’men’ orderby=title order=asc numberposts=20]”
To order clients for an actors site. I’ve had a request to list them alphabetically by the last name. However, they are just a single title string.
I tried creating a new shortcode for “title2” subtracting the first word from the title before applying “order” – yep I just broke the plug-in.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
:))
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Hi
Well, you cannot just ‘subtract’ first names. Technically you could with custom SQL and PHP but I don’t recommend it. These are the options if we are not using custom PHP:
- Simply change every title to [last name] [first name]. However, that might not be acceptable so you could do something else:
- Add a custom field called
lastnameto every post. In that custom field save each actor’s last name (preferably lowercase for clarity). Then modify your shortcode a bit[catlist offset=0 taxonomy='portfolio_category' terms='men' customfield_orderby='lastname' order=asc numberposts=20]It’s a bit of a hassle to set this up but it should work fine.
Cheers
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