[Support request] no chronological order in blog posts

[Gerhard]

Hallo,
My entry-titles are german dates e.g. 02.12.2010, 02.12.2010/2, 02.12.2010/3…
How can I achieve that they are arranged in a chronological order on the archive pages? The oldest date should be shown last

Greetings Gerhard

[David]

Hi there,

try this PHP Snippet:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_main_query() && ! is_admin() ) {
        $query->set( 'order', 'DESC' ); 
    }
} );

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

[Gerhard]

Sorry – what I meant was that the oldest date should be shown FIRST

e.g. 01.10.2010, 02.10.201, 03.10.2010…

Greetings fro Cologne
Gerhard

[Gerhard]

Oh – Igot it. It must be ASCinstead of DESC.

Now it’s ok. But it won’t work on Dezember 2010???

(see link)

[Gerhard]

It won’t work on Juli 2011 and September 2011 either!?

(The other months work)

Greetings from Cologne
Gerhard

[David]

Aah its the Title ( sorry i just read dates ).
The code above is just setting the order – by default that is the date value. Which should mean the dated order is correct – they just don’t match your titles.

You can change the orderby to title – by using this instead:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
  if ( $query->is_main_query() && ! is_admin() ) {
      $query->set( 'orderby', 'title' ); 
      $query->set( 'order', 'ASC' ); 
  }
} );

But i am not sure whether that will work correctly when the titles contain numbers.

[Gerhard]

Thanks a lot David!!!!! . Now everything works fine.

Greetings from Cologne
Gerhard

[David]

Thats great! Glad to be of help

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