Sort posts with category alphabetically

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killtheliterate
Member
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can lend a hand with sorting posts alphabetically within the context of a category archive. I've tried using functions.php to filter the posts query, to no avail.

I've tried several different functions, the one below seems to be closest, though it returns ALL posts when browsing the category
```
function alphabetize_category($query) {
if ( $query->is_category('4'))
{

//print "query string:". $query_string;
//$query = query_posts('?cat=4&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');
//print_r($query);
}
return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'alphabetize_category');
```
Posted 11 months ago #
middlesister
Member
I think you need to remove the question mark in the beginning of the query in query_posts. Probably the cat variable was not read because of it. I have never filtered pre_get_posts so I don't really know what format it expects. If I wanted to sort a category alphabetically I would use something like
```
function alphabetize_category() {
    if ( is_category('4') ) {
        query_posts('orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');
    }
}
add_filter('thematic_above_categoryloop', 'alphabetize_category');
```
But this is certainly not the only way to do it.
Posted 11 months ago #

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