Query posts with custom term not ordering posts

  • Resolved earthmanweb

    (@earthmanweb)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    After using wp_category_dropdown to create a jumplist of terms from a custom taxonomy, I am using query_posts to retrieve custom posts (jobs) based on the selected term id (job-category) in the GET vars…

    // convert the term_id in the GET var to a slug for query_posts
if($_GET['term_id']):
     $term = get_term_by( 'id', $_GET['term_id'], 'job-category');
  if($term->slug){
     query_posts( 'job-category='.$term->slug.'&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC' );
     //display text below
     $filter_text = '<h3>Displaying Jobs in category: '.$term->name.'</h3>';
  } else {
     query_posts( 'post_type=jobs&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC');
}
else: // no queryvar set
  query_posts( 'post_type=jobs&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC');
endif;

    The code works fine, except the problem I have is that the posts are not ordering by date, as specified. I even used the following code to check the query:

    echo "Query:<pre>";
print_r($wp_query->query);
echo "</pre>";

    and it outputs the following:
    job-category=administrative-clerical-support&post_status=publish&orderby=date&order=DESC

    Anyone have any idea why this isn’t working, please, or if it is a bug in 3.0? I’m completely stumped…

    Thanks!

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  • At least at 3.0 beta-2-14697 I’m not seeing that problem with my test data with a post_type of books and a custom taxonomy of genre. And changing orderby to ASC or DESC returns correct results.

    <?php
$args=array(
  'genre' => 'mystery',
  'post_type' => 'book',
  'orderby' => 'date',
  'order' => 'DESC',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => -1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  echo 'List of Posts';
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

    Thread Starter earthmanweb

    (@earthmanweb)

    Hi Michael,

    I am using query_posts, not the code you are using.

    I am not sure how your posted code relates to my question…?

    I can try your code instead of query_posts, but that doesn’t really solve the problem, being the query_post issue.

    Thread Starter earthmanweb

    (@earthmanweb)

    Hi Michael,

    I tested your code and it was not working either.

    I tracked it down to a conflict with the “postmash” plugin…

    Thanks for your time!

    Hey Michael, thanks for the tip!

    I was working on :

    $args = array(
'post_type' => 'product',
'taxonomy' => 'prodcat',
'term' => 'term name',
'nopaging'=>true,
'orderby'=>'title',
'order'=>'ASC',
);
query_posts($args);

    and it didn’t seem to want to sort by title properly, but using your version instead it worked brilliantly! ??

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