Title: Request: order capability when multiple authors
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Request: order capability when multiple authors

 *  [Touda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/touda/)
 * (@touda)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-order-capability-when-multiple-authors/)
 * Hi again, Chris.
 * I’ve detected another possible improvement for future updates: when a book has
   multiple authors the plugin does not allow for ordering them. But usually multiple
   authors _must_ go in a specific order (this is common in scientific papers).
 * If you could add this capability in future versions it would be great!
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/book-review-library/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/book-review-library/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Chris Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazzs3quence/)
 * (@jazzs3quence)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-order-capability-when-multiple-authors/#post-7143778)
 * This isn’t as simple as it sounds because there’s no inherent “ordering” for 
   taxonomy terms (which is what’s used for authors) — at least not an order that
   can be manipulated easily (alphabetical by term/author, numeric by ID, etc, see
   [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/7866](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/7866)).
   It’s possible using the new term meta functionality that was recently added to
   WordPress core but it’s not likely something that’s going to be added to the 
   plugin in the immediate future. I’ll add it to the roadmap, though.
 * [https://github.com/jazzsequence/book-review-library/issues/49](https://github.com/jazzsequence/book-review-library/issues/49)
 *  Thread Starter [Touda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/touda/)
 * (@touda)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-order-capability-when-multiple-authors/#post-7143788)
 * I understand, Chris.
 * Thanks for adding this one too to the roadmap 🙂

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-order-capability-when-multiple-authors/#post-7143788)
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