Orderby – Menu Order on Posts

  • olgamm

    (@olgamm)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello

    I have created a shortcode that I use in our site. The purpose of the shortcode is to display posts, nothing special, but I want to sort them by menu order.

    So I added in the functions.php the bellow code 

    
add_action( 'admin_init', 'MenuOrder_OnPosts' );

function MenuOrder_OnPosts() 
{
  add_post_type_support( 'post', 'page-attributes' );
}

    But when I’m in the admin inside a post and set a number on the attribute and click save the number resets to zero…

    What can I do to solve this problem?

    Thanks is advance,
    Olga

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    I think menu order is only applied to hierarchical post types. In a post, the field value is not even sent as part of the POSTed data, so the field is essentially unusable. My advice is to use a custom field to define ordering. Ordering a posts query by a meta value is not uncommon.

    Thread Starter olgamm

    (@olgamm)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello, thank you for your answer.
    How do I apply custom field to a post ??

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    There should be a custom fields meta box (aka document panel) below the post editor. If you don’t see one, use the 3 dot icon at upper right, then pick Options. Check mark Custom Fields near the bottom of the resulting dialog.

    In the meta box, click the Enter New link. Enter a Name and Value, then click the Add Custom Field button. Once you’ve defined a name, when adding the field in other posts, just select the same name in the Name drop down.

    Then when you query for posts, set the query arg “meta_key” to be the chosen name and set “orderby” arg to be “meta_value_num” (assuming you are saving numeric ordering data).

    Thread Starter olgamm

    (@olgamm)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Okay I will check this out 🙂
    Thank you for your answer!

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