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Garrett Gant
Garrett Gant

Reputation: 15

Django Blog Posts Ordered From Newest to Oldest

I am setting up a blog website and when I add blog posts, the oldest is on the top of the list. How do I reverse this so that the newest posts are on top of the page?

This is my pages/models.py I don't know if ordered_posts = Post.objects.order_by('created_date') is in the right place. I'm not sure where to put it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    published_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True blank=True, null=True)
    author = models.ForeignKey(
        'auth.User',
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,
    )
    body = models.TextField()

    ordered_posts = Post.objects.order_by('-created_date')

    def publish(self):
        self.published_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

Upvotes: 0

Views: 601

Answers (1)

mehamasum
mehamasum

Reputation: 5742

You can define ordering in your class Meta.

This is a tuple or list of strings and/or query expressions. Each string is a field name with an optional “-” prefix, which indicates descending order. Fields without a leading “-” will be ordered ascending.

class Post(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    created_date = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
    published_date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True blank=True, null=True)
    author = models.ForeignKey(
        'auth.User',
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,
    )
    body = models.TextField()

    def publish(self):
        self.published_date = timezone.now()
        self.save()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

    class Meta:
        ordering = ['created_date']

See docs

Upvotes: 2

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