Topic: Post Archive Sorting by Modified not Published Date

justinfm
April 13, 2023 at 4:38 pm

The posts in my archive seem to be sorted by last modified versus the publish date. Is this a setting somewhere?
Fernando
April 13, 2023 at 6:05 pm
Hi Justinfm,

It should be ordered by Published date by default.

Do you have any custom snippets? Can you check if one is causing this?

If there isn’t try adding this snippet:
```
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function($query){
if ( !is_admin() && ( $query->is_home() || $query->is_archive() ) && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'date' );
        $query->set( 'order', 'DESC');
   }
});
```
Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/#code-snippets
justinfm
April 19, 2023 at 3:58 pm

I tried this, but it didn’t work.

I should note, it seems like it’s only happening when you click on a category. The search function brings up the posts in correct date order. I’m not using tags, so I don’t know if it does it in tags.
Fernando
April 19, 2023 at 5:42 pm

I updated the code I provided to include archive pages. Can you test that?
justinfm
April 22, 2023 at 11:48 am

That code worked.

Thanks,

Justin
Fernando
April 23, 2023 at 4:02 pm

You’re welcome, Justin!

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