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Sort WordPress custom post types through Front End

The Advanced Post Types Order plugin now allows you to create custom sort lists directly from the front end of your site. This feature provides a seamless experience for users who do not have access to the WordPress admin interface, making content management more accessible and user-friendly. Front-End Sort Interface Overview When enabled, the sort […]

How to apply WooCommerce category order while using visual attributes filtering

Sorting WooCommerce products is an easy job, specific area ordering is possible after selecting the appropriate taxonomy or attribute.  When using mix of multiple taxonomies or/and attributes a sort is still easy to create through advanced set-up Sometimes, there’s no need to apply a very specific order for all those areas, as it become impractical […]

Turn off visibility for WooCommerce Hidden products within sort list

Catalog visibility for WooCommerce is a simple way to keep certain products visible or invisible for customers, hidden products will not show on front side shop. Mainly this is being used for content not yet available or under development. The option is being integrated within Publish widget or through Quick Edit.

Using sorting functionality along with DIVI Filterable Portfolio module

DIVI provided by Elegant Themes is just great! Excellent functionality provided through their visual composer and modules, make things easy to manage and stunning layout creation a breeze. Advanced Post Types order plugin provide total control over the content sorting for your DIVI powered website. Sorts are maintained easily through lists, which can apply globally […]

Sort post objects assigned to a taxonomy terms but not it’s children

Per WordPress Codex when creating a custom query, and request objects which belong to a specific term, direct assigned objects will be included. Also all other objects which belong to child terms related to queried term will be returned too. This is the default behavior observed within WordPress dashboard, when filter for a specific category, […]

Update the sorts when changing the site default language

To allow sorting for different languages through custom plugins like WPML the plugin implemented a custom functionality which also save the sort language. The feature becomes active right after plugin activation, even if there’s no multilingual code active yet to preserve sorts compatibility for later usage.

Applying the customized order when using the Post Types Order plugin

If you enable Auto Apply Sort in the plugin, you don’t need to change any code — the plugin will override compatible queries and apply the saved order automatically. The Post Types Order plugin stores a custom sequence using WordPress’ built-in menu_order field. To retrieve posts in that order inside your templates or code, use […]

Add numbers to items within the sort list interface

The Advanced Post Types Order plugin is based on jQuery Sortable UI to implement the drag & drop interface. As default this use the Unordered List tag (ul). For better control, some users might find easier to see ordered list (ol) instead which output numbers for each item in the list, accordingly to position in […]

How to sort posts automatically by a number/year included in title

Manual sorting is a fun process, order adjustments are easy through the Advanced Post Types Order plugin drag & drop interface. Automatisation is possible through Automatic Order functionality. This provides a powerful set-up for creating algorithmic based sorting without a human intervention. For large list, this might be a good option to save good time […]