Loop and display all parent post then sort order by the date of the child.

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Problem

How to loop and display all parent post, then sort order that list by the date of the child post?

Solution

In a View, you can order by 2 arguments, a primary and secondary, but there is no orderby "the parent post".

As a possible solution, you can create a View, and query the Child Post Type.

Those you can order by their date in the orderby setting.

Then, in the Loop, you will have to call the related parent Posts.

What you can also do is create 2 Views, in one you query the parent post and order it by what you need, in the second View you query the Child posts (that are a child to the post in the loop).
Those you can order again as you need.

Then you insert the second View into the first's View Loop.

Then, the first View is inserted in a page, and will produce this sort of result:

- parent post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
- another parent post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)

Relevant Documentation

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-of-parent-pages/
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/displaying-fields-grandparents/

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Last updated by Beda 6 years, 9 months ago.

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March 10, 2018 at 12:43 am #623877

Zoren_LeoL6293

Hello good day,
I just wanna ask on how to loop and display all parent post then sort order by the date of the child post?
Thanks

March 10, 2018 at 12:25 pm #623958

Beda

It's not possible.

In a View, you can order by 2 arguments, a primary and secondary, but there is no orderby "the parent".
You can create a View, and query the Child Posts.

Those you can order by their date.
Then, in the Loop, you will have to call the related parent Posts.
But those will be added as ordered by the currently queried post - hence following the orderby as set in the View, which applies to the date of the child.

What you can also do is create 2 Views, in one you query the parent post and order it by what you need, in the second View you query the Child posts (that are child to the post in the loop).
Those you can order again as you need.

Then you insert the second View into the first's View Loop.

Then, the first View is inserted in a page, and will produce this sort of result:
- parent post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- child post (ordered by what you chose)
- another parent post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)
-- another child post (ordered by what you chose)