Topic: Alphabetize Groups and Members?

Alphabetize Groups and Members?

KitWit
Participant

@kitwit

14 years, 11 months ago

Hey folks … I need to alphabetize my groups and members, so that when they display they are in alpha order … BP seems to order them in some random configuration, but I’m using the members and groups listing (renamed as “Businesses” and “Business Categories”) as a directory, so they need to be easily navigable. Any ideas?

Here is the problem area:

http://business.mountainprideconnections.com/members

http://business.mountainprideconnections.com/groups

Thanks in advance!

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Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

14 years, 11 months ago

The default sort order for directories is ‘active’. It dispays the most recently active first in the directory. You can change that by using a different sort order in your theme. See the docs for the loops here:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

In the default theme, the loop for members is controlled by /bpmember/directories/members/members-loop.php in the function:

bp_has_site_members( ‘type=active&per_page=10’ )

Changing type=active to type=alphabetical should get you there.

KitWit
Participant

@kitwit

14 years, 11 months ago

Thanks so much, Burt! It worked like a charm!

KitWit
Participant

@kitwit

14 years, 11 months ago

Hmmm … now I’ve managed to get my members to alphabetize, but my groups won’t … I’ve modified the groups-loop.php to show the type=alphabetical but so far, it’s not working … I know something is working, though, because I changed my &per_page to 20 instead of the default 10 … that part’s working. What am I doing wrong?

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

14 years, 11 months ago

You are not doing anything wrong. Stop trying to do it right.

Groups only comes in these flavors: active, newest, popular, random

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-site-groups-loop/

KitWit
Participant

@kitwit

14 years, 11 months ago

Oh, that’s no good. Can’t we make a change to that? I know I’m trying to use Buddypress for a purpose it wasn’t necessarily designed to fulfill (a directory) … if random is a flavor, then can’t we have “non-random” (i.e., alphabetical?) as a flavor, too?

abcde666
Participant

@erich73

14 years, 11 months ago

hmm… having groups sorted alphabetically, would definitely be a great thing.

I would need this as well.

Jeff Sayre
Participant

@jeffsayre

14 years, 11 months ago

Erich73-

Place an enhancement ticket in trac.

Peter Jeshua
Participant

@peterjeshua

14 years, 8 months ago

Any updates on this?