Slider Revolution WP
09.27.2016
Sorting Options for Post-based Sliders
Learn about the default sorting options as well as some additional custom sorting possibilities.
Contents
1. Default Post Data
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Default Options:
- Post ID: Sort by the unique ID assigned to each post
- Date: Sort by the post’s Published date
- Title: Sort posts alphabetically by their titles
- Slug: Sort posts alphabetically by their assigned slugs
- Author: Sort posts alphabetically by Author Name
- Last Modified: Sort posts based on when they were most recently published and/or updated
- Number of Comments: Sort posts based on which contain the most amount of comments
- Random: Sort posts randomly each time the slider is viewed
- Unsorted: No order specified
- Custom Order: See to Section 2 below
2. Custom Menu Order
back to topThe “Custom Order” option will sort the posts by their menu order. Menu order for posts can be modified in a variety of ways, several of which are listed in this tutorial.
3. Custom Menu Data
back to topModify the slider’s default WP_Query to sort posts by their Custom Meta values. Modify the parameters for your custom post meta, and then add the code to your theme’s “functions.php” file.
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function modify_slider_order($query, $slider_id) { // only alter the order for slider with "x" ID // https://tinyurl.com/zb6hzpc if($slider_id == 4) { // Custom Meta key/name $query['meta_key'] = 'meta-custom-date'; // Order by Custom Meta values $query['orderby'] = 'meta-custom-date'; // Calculate order based on: // 'NUMERIC', 'CHAR', 'DATE', 'DATETIME', 'TIME' $query['meta_type'] = 'DATE'; } return $query; } add_filter('revslider_get_posts', 'modify_slider_order', 10, 2); |
