Managing product order in a WooCommerce store involves more than deciding which products should appear first. Product availability is equally important, especially when customers browse categories, brands, and other product archives. A product may have the perfect position in a carefully arranged catalogue, but displaying an unavailable item ahead of products that can be purchased […]
Advanced Post Types Order (APTO) includes WP-CLI commands for inspecting and managing sorting configurations directly from the command line. This makes routine maintenance easier to automate and is particularly useful when working with remote servers, deployment scripts, or WordPress installations where administration through the dashboard is inconvenient. Using WP-CLI, you can list configured sorts, inspect […]
Sorting content inside WordPress has always required a balance between flexibility and usability. Website owners often know exactly how they want posts, products, events, or custom post types organized, but creating advanced sorting rules can quickly become technical and time-consuming.
By default, content sorting in Advanced Post Types Order is by default limited to administrators. This makes sense from a security standpoint, but in many real-world projects, other user roles—such as editors, contributors, or WooCommerce store managers—also need the ability to manage content order. Fortunately, the plugin provides a flexible way to grant sorting access […]
Managing the order of posts, pages, or custom post types can be a critical part of maintaining a coherent, user-friendly website—especially if your site is multilingual. In a recent release of Advanced Post Types Order, we’ve added a powerful new option, QTranslate Synchronize, designed specifically for sites using the popular QTranslate (or its forks) multilingual […]
This document describes how to retrieve WordPress posts in a predefined, custom order via the JSON REST API by leveraging the Advanced Post Types Order plugin. The plugin not only allows drag‑and‑drop reordering of posts (and custom post types) in the WordPress admin, but also ensures your custom sort order is applied automatically when fetching […]
When managing a large taxonomy in WordPress—say, a hierarchical category structure for products, topics, or custom post types—it can quickly become tedious to ensure that child terms inherit the same sort logic you’ve painstakingly configured at the parent level. The Batch Terms Automatic Update feature in the Advanced Post Types Order plugin solves exactly this […]
Divi’s built‑in Post Navigation module provides simple “Previous”/“Next” links out of the box—but it doesn’t respect any manual or programmatic ordering you’ve applied to your posts. If you’re using the Advanced Post Types Order (APTO) plugin to tailor your list order, you’ll want your navigation links to follow the same sequence. Starting with APTO […]
The Advanced Post Types Order plugin offers robust conditional logic to control the application of custom sorting in WordPress. This feature is particularly useful when you want to limit the application of sorting rules to certain scenarios, such as when using AJAX filters or other dynamic content-loading techniques. One of the key aspects of these […]
When managing a WordPress website with complex content and custom post types, having efficient ways to filter and sort your posts is crucial. The Advanced Post Types Order plugin allows you to customize post ordering, while Admin Columns Pro helps you enhance the admin dashboard by adding custom filters and columns. In this article, we’ll […]