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1. lumiere
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hiya,

   OK, so I'm making a portfolio based site with posts as the portfolio items. It works well in most cases. However I've just hit a snag...

   I want to be able to order the posts (portfolio items) with the best work first, and not necessarily in chronological/alphabetical/etc order. Wordpress obviously isn't able to decide for itself which is best so either I add a number as a custom field to each representing my preferred order and sort by that, or I find a nice plugin which allows me to visually move posts up and down the list. The second route is preferred by me as the number thing could get complicate as I move things around, plus of course it's just plain easier to do it visually!

   Anyway, so I found this plugin:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/order-posts/

   Which does exactly what I want I think, only it doesn't actually seem to work. Is it just me? Has anyone else had any luck with this one? Anyone got any suggestions of other similar plugins?

   Any help appreciated.

   Cheers

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   That plugin is referring to the post2cat table that was converted to the terms taxonomy structure with the release of 2.3.

   Might look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smart-sort/

3. lumiere
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thank you Michael,

   That explains why that plugin refuses to work at least! wp-smart-sort looks like a good plugin to use with a manually entered custom field, so thanks for that, i'll implement that for now, but if anyone knows of a plugin that allows a GUI reordering of posts (much like you can do with reordering images in the nextgen-gallery plugin) then I'd be forever in your debt.

   I might even try writing my own one in the future. But I've a lot of learning to do first I suspect.

   Cheers

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I might even try writing my own one in the future.

   If you do that, take the Order Posts and fix the code, call it Order Posts Reloaded and submit it to the plugins directory!

   If do create a plugin make sure to come back here and provide a link to that plugin. Thanks.

   Will mark this resolved for now.

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