Manual Layout of Posts

  • mathis

    (@mathis)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Hey, I’m trying to find a plug-in or way that would allow me to manually change the order of posts in categories so that I can layout posts in a new Website-style way on the blog.

    I’ve been search around for a drag-n-drop plugin, but the only (tedious) solution I’ve found so far is to manually change the publishing date of the posts so that their order gets changed. Is there an easier way to do this?

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  • Doodlebee

    (@doodlebee)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I don’t know if a plugin that can do this. I had to do somethign similar myself not too long ago, but it wasn’t easy to pull off. What order are you looking to sort in? Just by whatever ID?

    You could probably pull this off using the custom fields (that was *sort of* how I did it) and sing a query to pull the posts in the order you assign in the custom fields area. The problem is, the more posts you have, the harder this will be to arrange(because if you wanted to move post 100 between post 5 and 17, which were previously reordered, you’d have to recall what ID you gave them). but that would probably do the trick for you.

    Thread Starter mathis

    (@mathis)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    thanks for that tip! It still seems quite user-unfriendly, but maybe that’s why a blog won’t really work in my case. I was hoping to be able to figure out a way to basically drag and drop posts in different positions the way you can in a CMS.

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