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I’m not sure how to achieve the following effect.. If you look at my page http://beta.kyle2010.com, you’ll see that I have blog entries, as well as events/results on the index page. The events/results entries are organized as a single weblog with custom statuses of Upcoming or Complete. So far so good. However, when I change the status of an event from Upcoming to Complete (these are races, so I add results, and a little text), I would like that event to be reordered to appear as the first entry on the page.

Is there a way to sort my weblog so events with a status of ‘Complete’ display as the first entry?

Here’s the code I have for the index page right now.

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="Posts|Events" limit="10" status="Open|Completed|Upcoming"}
    
    {if weblog == "Posts"}
    
    <div class="post">
     <h2><span>Blog - </span> <a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></h2>
<p>      <br />
      Posted by {author} on {entry_date format="%M %d %Y"} | <a href="http://{title_permalink=" class="comments">{comment_total} comments</a> | posted in {categories}{category_name}{/categories}<br />
   {post_body}<br />
       {if post_image}<br />
      {post_image}<br />
    {/if}<br />
    </div><!--end post--><br />
  <br />
  {/if}<br />
  <br />
  {if weblog == "Events"}<br />
  <br />
  <div class="post"><br />
    {if status == "Upcoming"}<br />
      </p><h3>Event - <span><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></span></h3>
<p>      <strong>When:</strong> {event_date} <strong>Where:</strong> {event_location}<br />
    {/if}<br />
    <br />
    {if status == "Completed"}<br />
      </p><h3>Result - <span><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></span></h3>
<p>      <strong>When:</strong> {entry_date format="%M %d %Y"} <strong>Where:</strong> {event_location}<br />
    {/if}<br />
  </div><!--end post-->  <br />
  <br />
  {/if}<br />
  <br />
  {/exp:weblog:entries}

Hm- I thought you could order by status, but a double check proved otherwise.  I can think of two main approaches- use a custom field to replicate the status- you can sort on a custom field.  Or- check out Reeorder- a third party plugin that plays on the same concept.  I suspect there may be others I haven’t spotted.

It could also be done via pure php/custom plugin.

That help?  Sorting by status would be the easiest way, but it’s not available.  (Might make for a good feature request, though.)

You could also just set up two weblog entries tags, each with the status= that you need.

Thanks for the quick replies.. Lisa, I thought about that, but the problem I got was that all my posts appeared first, followed by my events. I would like them to appear together and in order. The exception would be events that have recently been completed, and have results. Those should appear first. I tried Reeorder, but the problem is it lists every single result at the top of the index page. I think the only way I can accomplish this is to manually update the ‘date’ field.

jktress, what I do is create an additional weblog field called sort. In that dropdown field type, I put in the following;

99
01
02
03
.. etc

and order by sort asc.

Example:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="faqs" orderby="qa_sort|title" sort="asc|asc"}

Most of the time I want to sort by the title. 99 is the default for qa_sort, so most items are set to 99, and don’t influence the sort. But if needed, I can choose 01, 02, etc.

Does that help?