Alphabetize posts in a category

paulae · #1 Mar 22, 2009, 03:29 PM

I want to have a category called Local Businesses, and I've used AZ-Index (wonderful plugin!) to create an index of categories of businesses, like Accountants, Clothing, Landscapers, etc. I made a text widget for the left sidebar using the index, only showing on the Business category. In addition, I pasted a list of accountants into a post called Accountants, another list into Clothing, etc.

Now, when you click on the Local Businesses link in the category menu, you are shown the most recent post, which is Dentists, because I put that in after Accountants. You can see it here: http://larchmontgazette.com/wp27/category/biz/

I found in the Wordpress codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts) a way to alphabetize the output within a category, using a custom template. I created my-businesses-template.php, and put in their code (in red) thusly:

Code:

<?php
/*
Template Name Posts: My Businesses Template
*/
?>

<?php 
global $options; 
foreach ($options as $value) { 
	if (get_option( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { 
		$$value['id'] = $value['std']; 
	} else { 
		$$value['id'] = get_option( $value['id'] ); 
	} 
}
if ( is_page() ) { global $wp_query; $current_page_id = $wp_query->get_queried_object_id(); }
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php // If there are any posts:
$posts = query_posts($query_string . 
'&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page=-1');

if (have_posts()) : $postcount == 0; ?>

It's not working. Dentists is still showing up ahead of Clothing, Accountants, etc.

What am I doing wrong? Is it some difference between your index.php, which I used to make my-biz-template.php and the standard WP single post code?