Sort by parent's title

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Problem:

In a post view, querying child posts, the client is going to order the result by parent post title.

Solution:

Unfortunately, there isn't such a built-in feature, you can only order the result by fields of the child posts, you can not order the result by fields of other post type.

This is a wordpress limitation

Relevant Documentation:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

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Last updated by randallH-3 6 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Luo Yang.

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July 19, 2018 at 2:09 am #950811

randallH-3

[wpv-layout-start]
	[wpv-items-found]
	<!-- wpv-loop-start -->
	<table width="100%">
		<thead>
			<tr>
             	<th>Thumbnail</th>
				<th>Title</th>
             	<th>Type</th>
				<th>Notes</th>
			</tr>
		</thead>
		<tbody class="wpv-loop js-wpv-loop">
		<wpv-loop>
          [wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-current-user info='login']' eq '[types field='note-user'][/types]' )"]
			<tr>
             	<td>[wpv-post-featured-image id="$proof-point"]</td>
       			<td>[wpv-post-link id="$proof-point"]</td>
          		<td>[wpv-post-type show="single" id="$proof-point"]</td>
          		<td>[cred_form form='edit-note']</td>
			</tr>
          
          [/wpv-conditional]
		</wpv-loop>
		</tbody>
	</table>
	<!-- wpv-loop-end -->
	[/wpv-items-found]
	[wpv-no-items-found]
		<strong>[wpml-string context="wpv-views"]No items found[/wpml-string]</strong>
	[/wpv-no-items-found]
[wpv-layout-end]

How can I create sort by parent's title? Is it possible?

July 19, 2018 at 8:12 am #951183

Luo Yang

Hello,

I assume we are talking about a post view, querying child posts, you are going to order the result by parent post title.
If it is, unfortunately, there isn't such a built-in feature, you can only order the result by fields of the child posts, you can not order the result by fields of other post type.

This is a wordpress limitation, see document:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

July 20, 2018 at 12:45 am #951649

randallH-3

Thank you.