There is an option to sort order and order by? about wordpress-ajax-filter-posts HOT 3 CLOSED

@sermalefico Thanks for your feature request. To understand it correctly: You want to have the sorting always the same way by adding a sorting method via the shortcode? Or do you want buttons that change the sorting when you click on it?

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either way would be fine. For example with the sortcode you could choose which buttons appear and with their default value. But yes, these buttons when pressed should modify the order with ajax.

ex:
[ajax_filter_posts post_type="recipe" tax="meal_type, food_type, diet_type" posts_per_page="12" orderby="menu_order" order="ASC"]

or

[ajax_filter_posts id="myquery" post_type="recipe" tax="meal_type, food_type, diet_type" field_as="select,checkbox,radio" posts_per_page="12" ]

[ajax_filter_posts id="myquery" field_as="select,checkbox,radio" filter_button="orderby" value="name" order="ASC" ]

ID: Order by post id.
author: Order by author.
title: Order by title.
name: Order by post slug.
type: Order by post type.
date: Order by date.
modified: Order by last modified date.
parent: Order by post/page parent id.
rand: Random order.
comment_count: Order by number of comments.
menu_order: Order by Page Order
meta_value: Sort by the value for a meta key (or custom field). This only works if you also include a meta_key parameter in your arguments. Meta values are sorted alphabetically and not numerically (so 34 will come before 4, for example).
meta_value_num: Order by numeric meta value. As with meta_value, you must also include a meta_key argument in your query.
post__in: Preserve post ID order given in the post__in array.

I don't know if it's the best way ...

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I think a default sorting option would be a good addition. For example order by title does fit in the uses cases I see for this package.

Although I like the idea of having buttons which control the sorting, I think it makes this package more complicated than it should be. The idea of this package came from the common need to have an overview were a user can filter a list of post (e.g. books, products, cars) and that writing the same functionality over and over again was cumbersome. Therefore I wanted shortcode which can do that, and do just that right, so it saves time developing.

That's also the reason this is not in the plugin repo: it's not a fully fledged plugin.

I'll add the enhancement for the default sorting to his package when I have time. Meanwhile you can add it yourself via the ajax_filter_posts_query_args filter. See https://github.com/Robbertdk/wordpress-ajax-filter-posts#query-arugments for more info.

If you need the functionality of sorting buttons: feel free to fork this package and add the additional features.

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