It only saved the setting for one user? I’ve never heard of that — the drag and drop order should apply globally. I didn’t build out any support for user-specific settings. Could you put together a Jing screencast of this?
A thought just occurred to me: did you SAVE the field order? When you’re on the manage-fields page, the changes are not preserved unless you click the save button at the bottom of the page.
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Thanks, fireproofsocks.
Just to clarify the issue, it’s not the Custom Content Type Manager’s manage custom fields page at /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cctm&a=list_pt_associations&pt=mycustomposttype that I’m having trouble with. It’s the /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=mycustomposttype page.
I am able to rearrange the order of the custom fields within the Custom Fields grouping at /wp-admin/admin.php?page=cctm&a=list_pt_associations&pt=mycustomposttype; however,I can’t rearrange the order of the custom fields in relation to the default WP body textarea.
Current ordering on new cusotm post form:
1) Title textfield (default WordPress)
2) Body textarea (default WordPress)
3) Platinum SEO pack fields
4) Discussion fields
5) Author dropdown
6) Custom Fields grouping, which contains the various custom fields
Desired ordering:
1) Title textfield (default WordPress)
2) Body textarea (default WordPress)
3) Custom Fields grouping, which contains the various custom fields
4) Platinum SEO pack fields
5) Discussion fields
6) Author dropdown
P.S. I’m not familiar with Jing but will look into it if the above doesn’t explain it.
Thanks.
The location of the title and body stuff is hard-coded in WordPress…. as far as the metaboxes go, WordPress’s implementation there isn’t very sensible (imo), but you should be able to get what you want there (provided the other plugins are using different settings for their metaboxes).
You can change the “priority” and the “context” of a metabox: create your own MetaBox in the CCTM by clicking on CCTM –> Content Types –> Manage Custom Fields –> Create New Metabox
http://yoursite/wp-admin/admin.php?page=cctm&a=create_metabox
See https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/MetaBoxes
I think you’re after the “Advanced” context using a “Hight” priority.