Changing Sort Order in StudioPress Themes

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Hit a rather irksome problem recently in developing a WordPress website on the StudioPress Genesis framework. I could not find anywhere to change the default sort order (Newest to Oldest by time of publication). Nothing in the functions. Nothing I could find in the lib settings. Nothing in the theme options (which I believe should be changed).

Finally, after hearing back from the developers and having them point me to a nice, clean function for supposedly resolving this, I gave it a try. It had the unfortunate side effect of knocking out my static homepage because it went into the loop, thought the homepage had a loop, and decided to simply sort all the posts in the database into that page. At least it showed them in the specified order.

Thankfully, I came up with a quick way to resolve this pesky problem. All you have to do is wrap the function with a check to determine if it is a page. Here’s the code: Continue reading