Title: [Plugin: Metronet Reorder Posts] How does it Work?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Metronet Reorder Posts] How does it Work?

 *  Resolved [pha3z](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pha3z/)
 * (@pha3z)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-metronet-reorder-posts-how-does-it-work/)
 * Can you explain how post ordering actually works under the hood? Since WP normally
   orders posts by timestamp, but this plugin overrides that, there must be some
   other field in the database that WP is using to store post order. Can you elaborate?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/metronet-reorder-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/metronet-reorder-posts/)

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 *  [snaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snaver/)
 * (@snaver)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-metronet-reorder-posts-how-does-it-work/#post-3093942)
 * Looking at the code it uses the built in WordPress column ‘menu_order’, I believe
   posts/pages by default will sort by this value.
 * For your custom posts you’ll need to query on this column.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-metronet-reorder-posts-how-does-it-work/#post-3093942)
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