order_by conflict with post order

Hi,
Did you try [ajax_load_more orderby="menu_order"] ?

The shortcode builder has options for order and orderby.

let me know.

hey dcooney that does work, didnt realize that was buried in there.

on a side note, i just realized that offset and posts per page are not being added into the short code using the shortcode builder… was working before?

Yea its confusing with so many options, i’m trying to figure out how to make the builder a bit more user friendly.

They are being added for me. posts_per_page and offset will only be added if the value is different than the default which is 5 and o respectively.

for some reason, now that im using the orderby in the short code, it is setting my posts into ascending order even though DESC is default?

echo do_shortcode('[ajax_load_more post_type="post" category="issue" orderby="menu_order" offset="12" posts_per_page="6" scroll="false" pause="true" transition="fade" button_label="More Articles"]');

this is how my shortcode looks now

DESC would work from ordering by date, but ASC would be the selection to order by menu order – 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5 ,6 etc.

ah gotcha, thanks for explanation! works fine now.

Hey there

I have a similar issue but seemingly the opposite is happening for me – I’m using Post Types Order and I’m using Ajax Load More for search results. Originally I had Post Type Order automatically re-order my wp_queries (a config setting of the plugin) resulting in my search results being ordered by date instead of relevance. I switch the Auto ordering off for Post Types Order and manually added orderby=’menu_order’ where needed (not in search).

I have added orderby=’relevance’ and order=’DESC’ to my ALM shortcode and assumed that with auto ordering off my results should now appear correctly, however the post order of the results remain ordered by date. When I deactivate the Post Types Order plugin completely my results are ordered correctly by relevance.

I really do need both plugins. Any ideas to what might be going on would be greatly appreciated.

Basically my orderby attribute seems to be ignored completely when Post Types Order is used. Both plugins are the latest versions.

Yea post types order usually overrides all queries. You could visit wp-admin/options-general.php?page=cpto-options and check the settings there. You can turn off auto sort.

I’ve discovered where the issue lies, not yet sure how to fix it.

In the Post Types Order plugin there’s an Auto Sort setting and an Admin Sort setting… it turns out both needs to be unchecked for ALM to work. This seems to me a bug as the Admin Sort setting should only apply to the admin front-end but seems to be affecting the website front-end where ALM is concerned.

A bug with ALM or post types order?
All ALM does is take the values in your shortcode and put them into a query.

I’m not sure where (looks like PTO), would need to debug. I’ll just leave the Admin sorting for now it’s not essential.

Thanks for the great plugin.

Ok great!