Wordpress – Alphabetical List Plugin
This is a simple wordpress plugin to list the posts alphabetically. Sometimes you have several categories but you need to order just one alphabetically and leave the others listed by published date order. After installing this plugin you can select those categories.
Installation:
- Upload alphabetical_list folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
- Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Go to Settings/Manage/Alphabetical List and select the categories you want to order.
- That’s it.
Screenshot:
Download.
Alphabetical List Plugin from Wordpress Plugin Directory
November 2nd, 2008
| Tags: alphabetical, Plugins, posts, web tools, wordpress
Is there no solution for my problem?
Hello,
great plugin!
Is it possible to show a list (a, b, c, d, e…) to jump to posts with this letter?
It work great! Running wordpress 3.0.1!
Hey Alain, this is a brilliant plugin. Still working beautifully on WP 3.0!! Completely easy to use, and meeting a real need – sorts my posts perfectly into alpha-order for the categories I select, and leaves the others alone. Thank you!!!
Hey, the issue I’m having is that it does *reverse* alphabetical list, which is knida not what I was hoping for!
check http://barbaralmatthews.co.uk/ to see what I mean (FYI this is a non-commercial site I’m doing for a painter friend).
Thanks for your time
Could this please be upgraded to Wordpress 2.9.1?
how to use this plugin?
It works perfectly right from the start under 2.84! It sorted all categories without having to check a box or anything. THANKS!
Could this be upgraded to 2.8.4?
Hey there. I’ve just installed the plugin and it doesn’t seem to work on this category: http://www.nrw-forum.de/blog/category/lexikon/. For testing purposes I’ve set up a test category with only a few articles which are only in this category and there it worked. It seems to me, that the plugin doesn’t work if the articles in it are in multiple other categories. Could this be?
Thanks, Lars
I tried using the widget, but I could only pick a few categories. I de-activated it and reactivated and now it’s not working at all. Any suggestions.
Hi,
The plugin work great! Thanks lot
It looks like there is a limit to the number of category we can select. Anyway I can increase the limit?
Thanks
@kkri
This is not a widget. This plugin organizes you post under specified category. And you can see the list when you click on that category in your blog.
Hi ALain.
I’ve installed your plugin, I choose one category to alphabetize (I have only 2 categories now) and I don’t see any list. I checked in widgets to put it on a sidebar but I don’t see your plugin. Do I have to see a strange name for it, in my widgets list? Should I see it in a page or like a widget? Thank you
@Michael Burris
Hi, it’s the same just deactivate them.
What do you mean when you say:
…why I can’t update the categories I need alphabetized?
Do you refer the plugin setting page?
You can contact me:
support at web-argument.com
Hi Alain,
Still hoping for some assistance re: either how to uninstall a plugin or why the plugin no longer lets me update it?
Hi Alain,
further details might help, your plug in was the last added and did work the first two times I used it. so i don’t believe it would be a conflict with another plugin.
Hi Alain, I don’t see a way to uninstall plugins, only deactivate them.
@Michael Burris
The Alphabet List Option page is under Manage for version < 2.7 and under Tools for version > 2.7. If you dont find it there try to uninstall others plugin to see if there are interactions.
Hi Alain,
any ideas on why I can’t update the categories I need alphabetized?
Hello,
The update doesn’t seem to be working, I can’t seem to edit the catagories I want to alphabetize anymore. Any ideas?
Hi! The plugin works perfect on Wordpress 2.7.1, but I find the same problem Christian has… is there a way to combine it with the Sticky plugin?
I have tried to sort out a list of names of my wordpress site. this seemed perfect, but the list should be organized through the surname not the first name. Is there any way I could customize this plugin to work with names. I think it could be a great idea.
@Noah
I dont know what widget you are using… but you can use the default RSS widget with “your-category” feed url:
- Organize “your-category” alphabetically
- Then copy the feed url for this category
- And use it on the RSS widget
Contact me if you need more assistance.
support[at]web-argument.com
Thanks,
Alain
If you look at my site, the right hand widget where it says “Reviewed Online Dating Sites” is the list of all the posts which are writen in the category “Online Dating Sites”. I’d like to alphabetize that list. Can i achieve this with the plugin or do i need something different?
@Noah
The plugin works for the category page I haven’t tested it for widgets. Can you explain me what do you mean by “my categories posts widget”.
Thanks,
Alain
Hey, I installed this on my website http://www.bestfreedatingsites.info. I’m trying to get my categories posts widget to be alphabetic. It is wordpress 2.7 and I went into tools and activated it on the category i want to alphabetize. It didn’t change anything. Any Idea why?
Wonderful, Finally I got it. I was looking for something like this. Using for my website http://www.gobabylatino.com with wordpress 2.7, I don´t have any problem.
Keep up the good work!
Many thanks
@Michael Burris
If you are using wp 2.7 its under “Tools”. For the oldest versions its under “Manage” see the above screenshot.
Thanks,
Alain
Hi, I am hoping to manage specific catagories with your app but don’t appear to have “Go to Settings/Manage/Alphabetical List and select the categories you want to order.” available in my word press menu. Any ideas?
thanks,
Michael
@Spyros
I fixed this issue. But we need to include another condition on the statement, because when there is not category selected the array ‘alph_list_cat_arr’ is empty but the function is_category() return true, then all the categories are showed alphabetically.
The final function could be:
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function alphabetical_order_cat($orderby)
{
if( ( count(get_option(’alph_list_cat_arr’)) != 0 ) AND ( is_category( get_option(’alph_list_cat_arr’)) ) ){
return “post_title ASC”;
} else {
return $orderby;
}
}
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Thank you all for your feedback!!!!
@xavier
Thank you for your comment.
Yes, this is an issue. I will fix it for the new version, ASAP.
Alain
Your plugin works perfect, but I note that the RSS Feed appears listed alphabetically also, which makes it unuseful. Is there a way to preserve the normal order of the posts (cronological) for the feed?
Thanks a lot,
Xavier
@nch
The code works ok on this new version. You can find the “option page” under “tools” go to http://web-argument.com/wordpress-alphabetical-list-plugin-update/ for more.
Thanks,
Alain
Plugin works perfectly. Huge timesaver.
A question though…
My goal was to have the posts by category listed alphabetical, but then selectively “sticky” a post or two of my choosing to the top…followed by the remaining alphabetical listing. I was using wp-sticky to accomplish this from the unordered list, but after alphabetizing them, sticky doesn’t seem to work any more…alphabetical supercedes sticky. My coding skills are lackluster, is there a way to get these plugins to work in harmony?
Thanks!
I think the admin side got obsolete since WP 2.7
However, it is a really useful plug-in. Are you thinking in update it?
Like what this does, but it is also seems to organise my main blog page into reverse date posted order.
Hello,
This plugin changes the order of all categories by ID or Date ascending and the categories I choose by Title as it says.
In order leave the rest of the categories sorting unchanged I alter the alphabetical_order_cat function to:
————————————————————–
function alphabetical_order_cat($orderby) {
if(is_category(get_option(’alph_list_cat_arr’) )) {
return “post_title ASC”;
} else {
return $orderby;
}
}
————————————————————–
Thank you for this nice plugin.