Hi guys,

I am using Smartblog in a version 7 website, the blog itself seems to be working fine however I am having an issue with the order of the blog posts as they are appearing in reverse order (oldest showing at the top of page 1 and so on).

I have checked through the Post list partial (see code below) but am unable to find how the posts are sorted, please could someone help me with what I am sure is a simple issue!

P.S. I have logged this twice on the Smartblog page however I have had no response from the developer

Code being used for the post list page:

 

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage

@using System.Web.Mvc.Html;

@using Umbraco.Web;

@using umbraco.NodeFactory;

@using Umbraco.Core.Models;

@using Umbraco.Core.Dynamics;

@{

    IPublishedContent blogRoot = Model.Content.AncestorOrSelf("SmartBlogBlog");

 

    List<IPublishedContent> results = new List<IPublishedContent>();

    System.Xml.XmlDocument document = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

 

    document.Load(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "/config/SmartBlog.config");

 

    bool useSummaryOnList = bool.Parse(document.GetElementsByTagName("useSummaryOnList")[0].InnerText);

 

    // Get posts by search query if specified, else just get all the posts.

    if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["q"]))

    {

        Examine.SearchCriteria.ISearchCriteria filter = null;

        string searchTerm = "";

        results = SmartBlogLibraries.Helpers.Search.SearchBlog(out filter, out searchTerm).Select(x => ((IPublishedContent)Umbraco.Content(x.Id))).ToList();

    }

    else

    {

        results = ((IPublishedContent)CurrentPage).DescendantsOrSelf("SmartBlogPost").ToList();

    }

 

    // Refine posts by tag

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["tag"]))

    {

        results = (from result in results

                   where (result.HasValue("smartBlogTags") && ((IList<string>)result.GetProperty("tag").Value.ToString().Split(',')).Contains(Request.QueryString["tag"]))

                   select result).ToList();

    }

 

    // Refine posts by author

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["author"]))

    {

        results = (from result in results

                   where ((IList<string>)result.GetProperty("smartBlogAuthor").Value.ToString().Split(',')).Contains(Request.QueryString["author"]) ||

                           (Request.QueryString["author"] == document.GetElementsByTagName("defaultAuthor")[0].InnerText && result.GetProperty("author").Value.ToString().Length == 0)

                   select result).ToList();

    }

 

    // Refine posts by category

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString["category"]))

    {

        results = (from result in results

                   where ((IList<string>)result.GetProperty("smartBlogCategory").Value.ToString().Split(',')).Contains(Request.QueryString["category"])

                   select result).ToList();

    }

 

    // Make sure all results are smart blog posts and order by date

    results = results.Where(y => y.DocumentTypeAlias == "SmartBlogPost").OrderBy("smartBlogDate").ToList();

 

    // If there aren't any results, we notify the client.

    if(results.Count > 0)

    {

        // Calculate paging

        ushort page = 1;

        if (!ushort.TryParse(Request.QueryString["p"], out page))

        {

            page = 1;

        }

        ushort itemsPerPage = 6;

        int skip = (page - 1) * itemsPerPage;

        int resultCount = results.Count();

 

        // Render paging

        @Html.Raw(SmartBlogLibraries.Helpers.Listing.RenderPagination(page, resultCount, itemsPerPage))

 

        // Render posts

        <div class="postList">

            @foreach (IPublishedContent post in results.Skip(skip).Take(itemsPerPage))

            {

                string author = post.GetProperty("smartBlogAuthor") != null && post.GetProperty("smartBlogAuthor").Value.ToString() != "" ?

                    post.GetProperty("smartBlogAuthor").Value.ToString() : 

                    document.GetElementsByTagName("defaultAuthor")[0].InnerText;

 

                try

                {

                    <div class="post">

                        <h3><a href="@Umbraco.NiceUrl(post.Id)">@post.Name</a></h3>

                        @if(useSummaryOnList)

                        {

                            <p>@Html.Raw(post.GetProperty("smartBlogSummary").Value.ToString())</p>

                        }

                        else

                        {

                            @Html.Raw(post.GetProperty("smartBlogBody").Value.ToString())

                        }

                        By <a href="?author=@author">@author</a> at @Convert.ToDateTime(post.GetProperty("smartBlogDate").Value.ToString()).ToString(SmartBlogLibraries.Helpers.DateTime.DateFormatNormal)

                    </div>

                }

                catch(Exception) {}

            }

        </div>

 

        // Render paging

        @Html.Raw(SmartBlogLibraries.Helpers.Listing.RenderPagination(page, resultCount, itemsPerPage))

    }

    else

    {

        <text>Unfortunately, no results were found for '@Request.QueryString["q"]' in @Model.Content.Name, try searching a higher level.</text>

    }

}