Posts in alphabetical order
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Hello,
I own a blog site with over 2000 articles, written by a second person and myself. The posts can be divided in two categories. Because the content gets larger, I’d like to make a page for each of the authors on which their own posts are shown.
I have a couple of questions about how to do that the easiest/best way:
– The past two days I have tried to create a page that shows only the posts of either one of us, but not really to a satisfying result. Is there any specific method, plugin or widget that I could use to do this? Preferably without showing images (or very small), so basically just a list of articles.
– Then, considering the amount of posts, I would like to have a way to sort them chronologically and alphabetically.
I’ve been around looking for examples that show a bit what I am looking for, I think this came closest, yet without sorting option, but including two categories:
https://www.vm-underground.com/vmu-author/ricardo/Any help or leads will be greatly appreciated!
(I am not a seasoned WordPress-user, but willing to learn :-) )
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It sounds like you’re trying to create an Index post (or page). I have something similar on my site, except that it’s a list of objects grouped alphabetically according to the name of the object. In your case you would only have two groups (one for each author), or perhaps one post per author.
Name Index of Cybis Porcelain Sculptures
Unfortunately, I created mine (and update it when necessary) manually, link by link. I have a row of jump links so that people can go to individual letter groups without having to scroll up or down each time, but AFAIK there is no HTML coding that would enable dynamic sorting on demand. I use the Classic Editor and so perhaps the Block Editor might offer that function but tbh, I doubt that it does in its native form. If you have a Business tier plan or higher (I don’t) there might be a plug-in that could do it. Lower tier plans, even the paid ones, don’t allow plug-ins. But the Business plan costs about $300/year…
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ETA: I probably have at least 2000 items in that index, and each one is a link to the page on which that item appears. It was a major slog to construct initially, but once completed something like this (in your case) would only need editing when a new post or item is added to the site.
I know there is a widget that can display posts chronologically BUT it would apply to all posts on your site globally….which doesn’t sound like what you envision (a chronological list of all posts by “Author A” and a separate such list of all posts by “Author B”. )
I suppose you could construct two separate Indexes (one alphabetically and one chronologically) but it looks as if both would need to be done manually. You could do the jump link thing though, between alphabetic groups (as mine is) and then between individual months in the other Index page.
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Thanks a lot for taking the time to respond.
Making a list by hand and keeping it up to date with each new post is something that will take a lot of time, but if no other solution is possible, I guess that is the only way out.
Personally I was thinking that if there’s a way to present all posts based on tags or categories (both for which a standard block exists), it should be possible to do that for ‘author’ too. But I can’t find it anywhere (yet). -
Hey there @letsel666, Because your site is using the standalone, open-source WordPress software on 3rd party hosting, you have other options available to you.
For help with this, I’d suggest heading to the ORG forums. You can find them at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
Not sure of the differences between COM (where we are) and ORG? This guide might help explain https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/#are-wordpress-org-and-wordpress-com-the-same-thing
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