Chatterton Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 I'm having troubles figuring out some code in a custom WordPress application. It's a book review site, and on the homepage we have 2 columns where we list our latest fiction & non-fiction reviews. Here's a link to give you a better idea: http://www.thelitreview.com/ Here's some of the code from the function that makes that happen: $fictionCount = 7; // number of boks to display $fictionList = array(1471, 1468, 1466, 1477, 1478, 1473, 1427); // these are WP post IDs $args = array( 'cat' => 1, 'posts_per_page' => $fictionCount, 'post__in' => $fictionList ); $my_query1 = new WP_Query($args); while ($my_query1->have_posts()) : $my_query1->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate1 = $post->ID; [do stuff that displays the list] The problem is that the array is automatically sorting itself numerically so that newer posts appear at the top, but since we're constantly adding in new content to older posts we'd like to be able to sort arbitrarily to display the array in the order specified. So how would you propose I go about fixing that up? Do I have to figure out how to assign the values to keys & then sort by the keys? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194954-custom-arbitrary-sorting-an-array/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamatomic Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Try using &get_posts() then look at $posts and figure out how to sort it yourself. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query Also look at http://postmashfiltered.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/post-mash-filtered/ HTH Teamatomic Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194954-custom-arbitrary-sorting-an-array/#findComment-1025008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chatterton Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Thanks, teamatomic. I ended up modifying my args array as follows. $args = array( 'cat' => 1, 'orderby'=> 'modified', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'posts_per_page' => 7, 'caller_get_posts'=> 1 ); It sorts the posts into the ones most recently modified and spits out exactly what I need, and now I don't need to manually update which posts to include anymore. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/194954-custom-arbitrary-sorting-an-array/#findComment-1025323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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