Author Pro theme – library post order

[renwil]

I am working on a site for a client who has written over 100 books in several different series. Is there a simple way to put the posts in the order that they books were published (like can I go in and say the first book published in 1995 is book #1 and so on and so forth?) I guess I'm asking for custom post order but I don't see it in the screen options.

[Brad Dalton]

Is it an archive for a custom post type?

If so, you can use pre_get_posts to order by date

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

}

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[renwil]

No, I don't think so. Sorry, not exactly sure what that means. Take a look at this page - http://www.brendajackson.net/?book-series=madaris. The first book should be Tonight and Forever. From there, I want them in order of date of book publication. You can see a printable list of books here - http://www.brendajackson.net/?page_id=10.

[Brad Dalton]

Do you want to create a new list of al books listed by the most recent date?

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[renwil]

No, I want to have the books in each series (on their respective series page) in order like on the printable list.

[Brad Dalton]

Tonight and Forever was published after Courting Justice based on the time of day as they where both published on the same day.

Also, you have a plugin installed which modifies the order so any code you add may not work.

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[renwil]

I just ended up doing it manually. Seemed like the easiest way to do it. Thanks for the help.

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