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Ordering blog post when using category filter

Is there a way to order the blog posts when using the category filter. Debug is telling me they are ordered by post title ASC - my client needs them ordered by date
Matthew Owen

Matthew Owen 0 points

  • 5 years ago
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

Yes, you can use the sort option to do that.
Matthew Owen

Matthew Owen 0 points

5 years ago

in the backend, when logged in...
Simon Clay

Simon Clay 127 points

5 years ago

Hi,

I think you'd use something like this in your page:

<?php
perch_blog_custom(array(
    'category' => perch_get('cat'),
    'sort' => 'postDateTime',
    'sort-order' => 'DESC',
    'template' => 'your_blog_listing.html',
));
?>
Matthew Owen

Matthew Owen 0 points

5 years ago

Hi Simon, just to check we are not misunderstanding each other, I am referring to the Admin Area. My client needs to be able to find/sort the blog posts by category in order of date published. Standard appears to be post-title, ASC.

Thanks for your help!
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

5 years ago

They should always be ordered by date. If not, that's a bug and we'll fix it.
Matthew Owen

Matthew Owen 0 points

5 years ago

ok, super. i will let my client know that it is being sorted - thank you!
Matthew Owen

Matthew Owen 0 points

4 years ago

Hi Drew, has this bug been fixed?
Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan 2638 points
Perch Support

4 years ago

No, it's something we'll look at for the next revision of Blog.