Specify Ordering with Next/Previous Tags
Fred Boyle of nGen published a great how-to last week on how to enable ordering (e.g. by entry_date) when using the next/previous tags in the Channel Entries tag pair. If you’ve tried this out-of-the-box with ExpressionEngine, you know that it doesn’t work.
Using a combination of a dozen or so lines of PHP, a Channel Entries tag pair and an embed template and variable, Fred was able to make sort by entry_date and use the previous/next pagination. He sort of recreates the basic pagination functionality right in the template. As it was noted in the comments to that article, there are other ways of going about it that don’t involve so much processing.
If you don’t need something like this right now, file it away in your reference file.
Read the whole article: ExpressionEngine and previous/next
Related: Channel Entry and Comment Pagination (EE Documentation)
Posted on Sep 13, 2010 by Ryan Irelan
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