Earliest post is on top, starting with number 1 as the value for ordering

[Topy05]

Hello, let’s say I create post A, post B, and post C. I want post A, the oldest one, to be on top. And since I cannot predict how many posts to be created, I don’t know the frame and don’t prefer to enter the value in a countdown way. What I want is:

I wan to enter the value for the ordering like this (start from number 1 to be on top):

A = 1 (Earliest post is on top)
B = 2
C = 3

I don’ want to enter the value for the ordering in a countdown way like this:

A = 3 (Earliest post is on top but not in a countdown value because I can’t predict how many posts to be created)
B = 2
C = 1

• This topic was modified 6 years ago by Topy05.
• This topic was modified 6 years ago by Topy05.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

You can change the ordering, under the General Options -> Ordering panel, by date ascending as well: https://i.imgur.com/eM7l56S.png

[Topy05]

Please have a look at the alphabets in A. For example, if I want these alphabets to be in the order accordingly like this, what will happen if I forget to input “Ant” before jumping to “And”? So, if later I input “Ant” it would be in the ordered position after “And” as it is ordered by Date ascending, right? So, with this case, anyway to fix it?

If no, is it possible to to manually input the ordering value into them as normal but just want to start the earliest alphabet with value 1, not 100 by default or whatever values and countdown to 1 because I don’t know how many words to be added.

– A
1 Apple
2 Angle
3 Ant
4 And
– B
– C

By the way, I am creating dictionaries. So, ordering is important to me. I need to make sure before adding a huge number of words. If ordering is mistake early, I would spend a huge amount of time to reordering as there’re so many words.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

Well, the title order is alphabetical, wouldn’t that work for you? In that case, it does not matter in what order you put in the items, they are sorted alphabetically.

[Topy05]

Ah, sorry I forgot to tell you that my language is Lao, not English. So, not sure ກ, ຂ, ຄ will be the same order as A,BC. Now I select “Title Ascending” , it’s still the same. In my language, ກ is same to A. It will stay on top.When I input data, I start with ກ first, and then ຂ, ຄ, and other alphabets respectively until finished.

Or I have to do this way, now I have a dictionary book, just count how many words in total. For example if there are 10,000 words in total, use that 10,000 value for the alphabet ກ to be on the top.

When it comes to making an online dictionary, ordering is important. If you type in a word ກ the dropdown suggestion would list proper order and this will look professional and in the way that it should be.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

It should be correctly ordered regardless – the ordering is done by the MySQL database engine, and if the database encoding is set correctly, then it should be all right. The plugin does not reorder the results, it presents them how the database orders them.

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