humble coder

Can someone give me a bit of info on this issue from the beginning? It seems like every answer to this type of question makes assumptions regarding one’s knowledge of WP and starts too far into the process.

Anyway, I’m having a similar issue, but I’m happy with the default layout of the posts. I simply want to allow users to click a link and reload a sorted page based on various meta_key fields (e.g. price, location, size). However, I’m not sure where to “short-circuit” the process in order to provide my own query. I provided what I thought was the proper URL — it appears that “ASC/DESC” change the display based on entry date, but nothing about the “meta_key” seems to have any effect. Do I need to create a full categories.php or loop.php page manually or is there somewhere I can slip the query in?

The following are some sample URLs:
cat=9&meta_key=_features_1_col1_1&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC
cat=9&meta_key=_features_1_col1_1&orderby=meta_value_num&order=DESC

I’m honestly lost and am not sure where to go from here. Thoughts?

what was the solution?

Hi kimmiet,

Basically my issue was theme-dependent. I simply navigated to “Presentation > Theme Editor” and commented out the “Home” section near the bottom of a given header template. It should be just before the section that calls the ‘wp_list_pages’ function.

HTH

“mores” thank you! That is *exactly* what I was looking for. I suppose I’d been looking at code and such waaaaaay too long yesterday. I simply removed the <li> from the header template and edited that info in the Options section (or even with the “My Page Order” plugin.
I still wish it didn’t treat the default blog page as anything special, but that was simple enough to edit.

Thank you all!

I see. Well, is there any straightforward way to do *exactly* what I want? . . .to manually determine the blog “page”s order transparent to the end user?

It would be nice if the blog “not-page” were still available as if it were a page. For sorting if nothing else.

Thank you for your help.

Regards.

My apologies for the confusion. Basically I simply want the position of my “blog” page to be editable in the list of pages on my site. I don’t necessarily want it to be the first page my users see, but I don’t want to get rid of it either. Currently it seems that all solutions (e.g. “Use a Static Home Page”) are all or nothing.

Currently, across the top of my page are the following:

HOME(or blog) ABOUT DOWNLOADS DRAWINGS

I want it to say:

ABOUT DOWNLOADS HOME(blog) DRAWINGS

Currently it seems as though the blog page is treated as being “superior” to all other pages. It is not available in the Page Manger section. I simply want “fair treatment” of all pages. Is the position of the blog page strictly dependent upon the theme in use or are there other factors?

As for a link, I currently have none as I’m working on all local machines.

Best Regards