Problem with Archive page : Category listing

Using the Archive Page, is there a way to put the Categories in order of their creation (i.e. by date)?

My news articles are in categories that have been imported from a previous site and are all named and organised by month - Subject January 2014, Subject February 2014 etc, where the subject name remains the same.

Currently when displayed in the Archive category list, they appear ordered alphabetically as Subject April 2012, Subject April 2013, Subject August 2012, Subject August 2013, Subject December 2012, Subject December 2013 etc.

I would like them to display chronologically. Is this possible?

Thanks

Hi,

Are you talking about Archive template page? like here: http://www.gavick.com/demo/wordpress/news/?page_id=107
or archive like category, author page etc: http://www.gavick.com/demo/wordpress/news/?m=201301

Hi

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The centre column on a page like this:

http://www.gavick.com/demo/wordpress/news/?page_id=107

Thanks

Ok, now I understand, you can change it in News/template.archive.php file

in this fragment

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wp_list_categories(array(
                     'orderby' => 'name',
                     'show_count' => 1,
                     'title_li' => ''
                  ));

change orderby from name to e.g. ASC or DESC.

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried editing the file you suggest, changing orderby with alternately 'asc' and 'desc', but neither makes a change to the listing. The list is still displaying months in alphabetical order, rather than calendar year order.

Unfortunately there's no option to sort it by date:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tag ... categories

but please try to use this code:

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wp_list_categories(array(
                     'orderby' => 'ID',
                     'order' => 'DESC',
                     'show_count' => 1,
                     'title_li' => ''
                  ));

Hi
Thanks for your suggested code. It fixes all the most recent categories of the list into the right calendar order, so well done and thanks for your help.

Some of the earlier date category IDs must have been created out of sequence, so I don't think it's an easy fix to manually change various IDs.

Thanks again for your help.

Yes, it works properly only if your category IDs are in right sequence, unfortunately there's no other way.