Next and Previous - Sort order custom post type

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Last updated by Nigel 6 years, 10 months ago.

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February 22, 2018 at 8:03 am #618534

timd-5

Hi,

I have created a view with a custom post_type, sorted by post title. Each post title is a link to the post itself. On those post pages, I've inserted links to the next and previous post. But I can't seem to find where to set the order of those. So the order of the next/previous differs from the view.

How do I change the order of the posts of this post_type to "sort by title"?

Kind regards,
Tim de Jong
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February 22, 2018 at 12:31 pm #618615

Nigel

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Hi Tim

It's not possible, I'm afraid.

The Views shortcodes wpv-post-previous-link and wpv-post-next-link are built on top of the native WP functions for next and previous links, and these are based on the post date and do not have options to order by an alternate field. (https://codex.wordpress.org/Next_and_Previous_Links)

What you want would require registering your own custom shortcodes for the next and prev links that get the list of posts with the same ordering options as your View and then generate the links. There is a link to something similar in the final section of that linked page.