Order alphabetically by custom taxonomies

Anonymous

#55951

Hey!

I’m thinking about creating a kind of table like view, where the columns would have titles like post title, author and date and the rows would list this information from all posts. I want it to be possible to change the order by clicking the column titles, for example if I click date, it would show order by date descending and if I click again, would change it to ascending. And with the other fields, the order would be alphabetical. I think it could be possible with the sort order field and some custom js and css.

However, in addition to the sorting options that I mentioned, I would like to use custom taxonomies and also sort by them alphabetically. Is that possible? I can’t find them in the sorting options, not even in meta value. I can see ACF fields there, should I just use those if it’s not possible to sort with taxonomies? I’m doing this with a custom post type, I’m still designing it and thinking what would be the best way to do it. So I could do it with ACF, but I thought custom taxonomies would be easier, since I could use the ones that already exist for another post type that I’m using. So, is there a way to use the taxonomies, or do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Trevor

#56021

I’m thinking about creating a kind of table like view, where the columns would have titles like post title, author and date and the rows would list this information from all posts. I want it to be possible to change the order by clicking the column titles, for example if I click date, it would show order by date descending and if I click again, would change it to ascending. And with the other fields, the order would be alphabetical. I think it could be possible with the sort order field and some custom js and css.

I do not know if this would work, and it is outside of our normal support.

However, in addition to the sorting options that I mentioned, I would like to use custom taxonomies and also sort by them alphabetically. Is that possible?

I do not think that this is possible.

I can see ACF fields there, should I just use those if it’s not possible to sort with taxonomies?

If that works for you …

So, is there a way to use the taxonomies, or do you have any other suggestions?

Not that I can think of.

Anonymous

#56304

Well thanks a lot.

I do not know if this would work, and it is outside of our normal support.

I didn’t ask help for that, I can figure it out. Just mentioned it to give some background about why I need to sort something with taxonomies.

In case anyone else comes here and wants to do something similar, you can use Advanced Custom Fields. I added an ACF field to my custom post type, set the field type to Taxonomy and chose the category that I wanted to use. Then with Search & filter pro I created a Sort order field and added a meta value option. From the Meta Key list I found the ACF field I had created, and that’s how I’ll be able to sort by taxonomy. So I think this will work for me, but maybe not for everyone.

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