I want to use the plugin WP Smart Sort to sort my posts alphabetically, except I need the most recent posted first on the home page. The relevant existing code for the home page is below. Is there something I can add to it to force it to include the recent posts and go by date rather than by the alphabetical order I want everywhere else?
(In case it helps to see the context, the site is at http://mormonscholarstestify.org/)
<div id="homebox">
<?php if ($aOptions['homebox-id'] != '') { query_posts('showposts=5&cat=' . $aOptions['homebox-id']); } ?>
<?php if(have_posts()) : the_post() ?>
<div id="boxmain">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title() ?>"><img src="<?php $key="thumbnail"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title() ?>" /></a>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h3>
<?php $key="affiliation"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?><p>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post() ?>
<div class="boxitem">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title() ?>"><img src="<?php $key="thumbnail"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="<?php the_title() ?>" /></a>
<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h3>
<?php $key="affiliation"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
According to the WordPress
query_posts
documentation you should be able to supply anorderby
parameter to the querystring to change how the posts are ordered, like so: