Displaying podcast series w/show_posts

[abletec]

My client has a podcasting site. He often does a series of podcasts on a particular topic. I’d like to display the series by descending order, most recent first, but the parts within by ascending order, i.e., parts 1, 2, 3, etc. Can show_posts do that?

Thanks for any thoughts.

[Weaver]

I would assume each series is grouped by a category or tag, and that each series would use its own [show_posts].

And on one hand, you are sorting by time, and on the other, you want to sort by name.

I can’t think of any way to show a group of posts with a single [show_posts] (or even custom PHP code interfacing directly to WP) that would sort that way.

The only way I could think to do this would be to actually create the parts in reverse order (load 3 first, 1 last) (or manually change the date/time of each of those).

Then they would fall under the same descending date/time order.

 Or you could add a unique tag/category for each element of the series, and put each in a separate post that gets linked from a list of series.

But I can’t think of any way to filter a group of posts that have sub-parts to them in two completely ways.

[abletec]

Thanks. Somehow I was afraid of that.

[Weaver]

I’m not sure how you are grouping the posts, or what kind of link you actually used for each part, but if I were doing this, I’d put an entire set of parts into a single post. I assume the visitor would then click a link to listen to each part. Or maybe each group of parts could be a playlist.

But maybe your podcast creator plugin or whatever automatically creates a post per audio file?

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