The re-order interface uses a drag&drop functionality which makes the sorting process very easy. Using a mouse or tap gesture for mobile devices, the items can be dragged and dropped up and down, uppon the required order. The process is generally fast and takes coupe minutes for arrangements of 50-100 objects.

On large lists, when pagination is not being used, the drag & drop of items up and down might become slower, as the page also need to scroll along with the mouse positioning. The “Jump to Position” feature, is a great way to quickly move an object at a specific position in the list, by entering the required position where the item should be re-located:

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When creating a simple sort the selection area outputs the Archive and all taxonomies assigned to a particular custom post type:

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When using Auto Sort functionality, The Advanced Post Types Order plugin apply the order automatically on front side. This works very easy and does not require any coding skills, the customised order is inserted automatically in all front/dashboard queries which match the sort set-up.

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The JSON REST API service, fully implemented into WordPress since 4.7, provides a great way for other applications to connect. This is a huge step forward, as it can communicate and exchange data regardless of what languages an external program uses.

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Probably the best choice for e-commerce under a Wordpress environment, WooCommerce deliver all the juice you need for a successfully e-commerce business.  WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practices both on the front and the back end. This results in an efficient, robust and intuitive plugin. (more…)

Customizing the sort for a site content is the key to improve SEO ratting and keep you in business. Any new visitor will navigate your page just a bit before leave for another site, if not find quality information. Placing the best products and articles in the relevant spots is the way to catch a rushed eye.

Advanced Post Types Order plugin provide excellent tools to manage everything when it come to content sorting, moving things around is a breeze job, re-ordering can be achievable through provided intuitive visual interfaces.
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A new functionality is available for Advanced Post Types Order plugin, Pagination for sort lists. A high number of objects to show on a single list, makes the sorting process a bit difficult sometimes, either being slow as loading lots of html code or simply too many to follow certain objects in the list. The Pagination functionality, split the items on multiple pages using a WordPress pagination style. This feature can be controlled for each sort individually through their settings:

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When migrating from free Post Types Order, on activation. the Advanced Post Types plugin automatically import the previously customized order. This is saved within Archive area, since this is the type of sorting the free code is capable off. The other areas as taxonomies terms like categories, inherit default sorting by date as there’s never been applied a customized order.
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WordPress Polylang plugin allows to create multilingual content for your site, easily. You write any content type, like post, pages, categories, tags, define the language for each and translate.
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For very large list, it can be a challenge to save an order list. Something this can take a while, on certain hosts it can be stopped from execution returning an 500 server error. The main cause for this is a php environment variable called Maximum Execution Time. This is generally set for 30 seconds.
When Pagination is set for Advanced Post Types Order plugin, the timeouts are no longer a problem, the sort list save job is split into small chunks to allow server to process the data.

Additionally, a progress data is being show, the current chunk page out of total jobs.