WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems that allows you to create and manage your website without any coding knowledge. With the rise of mobile devices, it’s essential to create a responsive website that looks great, from information perspective, on any device. One way to achieve this is by using the Advanced Post Types Order plugin. In this article, we’ll show you how to apply different sorts for desktop and mobile devices using this powerful plugin.
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WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress that makes it incredibly easy for selling products online. WooCommerce is an Open-source platform and highly customisable code.

Why WooCommerce sort is important for a shop?

Every aspect of a WooCommerce shop is important. Apparently insignificant details can make a difference between a sale and a lost customer. WooCommerce product order is a must to consider for every shop. Relevant content should always stand first, before anything else. This ensures the potential products are viewed first and spotted, rather than lost in endless lists. (more…)

When viewing the sort interface, within the drag & drop section, the system outputs the current object items ( post types ). As default a line include a Thumbnail, the Post Title and the Post ID
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When publishing a new Post, the object shows the first on the front side lists, also the first item in the Sort List. Creating further customized sorting, automatically assign an order index to the object, for a specific taxonomy term or archive. This way the Advanced Post Types Order plugin knows in what position each of the objects needs to show up when display on the front side.
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Setting Sticky Items within the re-order interface is a cool plugin feature, through which fixed position for posts can be set, independently of sorting or newly created items.
Randomizing items while keeping in place the Sticky Items is each to achieve through a programmable filter.
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Creating custom Sort for Posts (or any other custom post type) within categories is an easy task using the Advanced Post Types Order plugin, a visual drag & drop interface is easy to set-up and self explanatory. The order can be customized for individual categories which apply accordingly on front side when view such area (e.g. category link). (more…)

Divi is a nice theme, the incorporated builder is very easy to use and provides lots of functionalities. But like default WordPress navigation methods it misses any kind of support for Sorting and ordering apply when outputs navigation links.

Since version 4.3.5 the Advanced Post Types Order plugin introduced a new module APTO – Post Navigation which can be used to show post navigation link while applying the customized order. When add a new module, within the list there will be shown a new item which can be inserted in the template:
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For hierarchical taxonomies like Categories, the terms can take a parent-child structure scheme. This helps for a better organization of the customs port type objects assigned to the categories.

Sometimes, the themes and plugins, when query and outputs categories, specify a taxonomy argument called include_children. If set to TRUE, the query returns only direct post objects assigned to queries taxonomy term and not including the child of current terms ( which is the default behavior ).
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A default search returns the found objects for all site custom post types. This makes difficult a sort to be created, which will apply for the search result, as is require all objects to be displayed in the list, which for large sites means thousand of items.

Sorting for WooCommerce Products is a simple process. The Advanced Post Types Order cover all possibilities to match any type of sorting, automated or manual drag&drop. The article at WooCommerce – Sort Products which belong to multiple categories descriebe the basics to get it started.
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