I created a child Ethos theme and with your help added a button to reorder posts.

My first blog page does show a button and a map. Is it possible for the next page to simply show the posts without the button and map (and without a side bar)

The other problem is that while the button works but I can’t get to the next page.

<?php
$post_order = 'ASC';
if ( isset($_POST['last_order']) && $_POST['last_order'] == 'ASC' ) {
	$post_order = 'DESC';
} ?>
<?php

echo do_shortcode( '[wpgmza id="1"]' );
 

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/GLOBAL/_INDEX.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Includes the index output.
// =============================================================================

$stack = x_get_stack();

if ( is_home() ) :
  $style     = x_get_option( 'x_blog_style', 'standard' );
  $cols      = x_get_option( 'x_blog_masonry_columns', '2' );
  $condition = is_home() && $style == 'masonry';
elseif ( is_archive() ) :
  $style     = x_get_option( 'x_archive_style', 'standard' );
  $cols      = x_get_option( 'x_archive_masonry_columns', '2' );
  $condition = is_archive() && $style == 'masonry';
elseif ( is_search() ) :
  $condition = false;
endif;

?>

<form method="post" action="">
<input type="hidden" name="last_order" value="<?php echo $post_order; ?>">
<input type="submit" value="Reverse Post Order">
</form>

<?php if ( $condition ) : ?>

  <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_script', 'isotope-index' ); ?>

  <div id="x-iso-container" class="x-iso-container x-iso-container-posts cols-<?php echo $cols; ?>">

 <?php 

query_posts($query_string . "&order={$post_order}");

 if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
      <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        <?php if ( $stack != 'ethos' ) : ?>
          <?php x_get_view( $stack, 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
        <?php else : ?>
          <?php x_ethos_entry_cover( 'main-content' ); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
      <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php else : ?>
      <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_content-none' ); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>

  </div>

<?php else : ?>

  <?php
query_posts($query_string . "&order={$post_order}");

 if ( have_posts() ) : ?> 
    <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
      <?php x_get_view( $stack, 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
  <?php else : ?>
    <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_content-none' ); ?>
  <?php endif; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php pagenavi(); ?>

Thanks for all your help

You can wrap your button and map within this condition.

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>
<!-- your button and map replacing this line -->
<?php endif; ?>

And about the paging, I say it becomes more complicated. And you may need to contact a developer.

Paging is composed from query_var named page or paged passed by URL. So it’s basically re-writing the url to $_GET variable internally and get converted to query_vars

http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Query_Vars

Your $_POST will not work as it only maintained on current page and On-Submit and not to the other page. So it will need reworked to include custom permalinks and custom query_var.

Eg. http://domain.com/blog/last_order/page/2/

Thanks!

I have 20+ years of assembler, C, C++, Objective-C experience but no real PHP, so one question. I assume php is stateless, but is there anyway to create a “global” variable accessible from all pages?

Any recommendation on a good way to learn php in the wordpress context?

Thanks for all your help

You need to enclose your code in php tags.

You can try this

<?php if ( is_home() ) : 
      echo do_shortcode( '[wpgmza id="1"]' );
endif; ?>

Hope that helps.

Try adding this in your Customizer’s Custom CSS:

.blog .x-main .hentry:last-of-type{
border-bottom:none !important;
}

Hope it helps!

Thanks.