Question

I would like to change the wordpress default query to orderby title when viewing a category, rather than the post id.

For reasons too boring to explain(!) I would like to change the default setting rather than use a custom query (which I know how to do)

Ideally it would be some code that goes in the functions.php of my template, rather than having to hack the core installation.

Thanks for your help people!

Answer 1

in your archive.php, find the code

if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();

and replace it with:

$cat_posts = new WP_Query($query_string."&orderby=title&order=ASC");
if ($cat_posts->have_posts()):while($cat_posts->have_posts()):$cat_posts->the_post();

this should do the trick.

update: this is taken if you want to change the source code.