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1. ereckers
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I was wondering if anyone has ever needed to order Posts within Categories with each Category containing a different possibly ordering for Posts.

   This is what I'm looking for:

   cat1
   post1
   post2
   post3

   cat2
   post2
   post1
   post3

   cat3
   post3
   post2

   The idea here is that I'm treating each Category as a separate media group and when displaying each media group I would like to control the order of each Post within each media group.

   What I'm looking for is the type of ordering flexibility that the new Menus functionality has, except instead of managing only the makeup and order of menu items, it would allow for managing the makeup and order of posts within categories.

2. multimedia_man
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Did you ever find a way to do this? I asked the guys at advanced-post-types-order plugin but they said it requires a few features that aren't yet supported by wordpress. They hope to include this functionality in an upcoming release. I'd be interested in finding out if you got around it?

3. ereckers
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I ended up writing my own plugin (unreleased) for it. It used a combination of custom fields with an added sortby parameter during the post list. The backend administrative screen looked and acted much like the custom menus screens with drag and drop ordering, etc..

   The underlying code and structure wasn't pretty so I never released it, but it worked perfectly (still in use today).

   I remember looking at the Advanced Post Types Order plugin before building my plugin and found that it didn't actually do what I needed it to do (sort posts within categories). That was a couple months ago and looking at their site now it seems that they claim to do more.

   How were you thinking of using this plugin? Are you using it as an app or were you just trying to use it in a blog type setting?

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