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Pagination for large Sort Lists

When managing large lists of sorted items on your WordPress site, pagination becomes an essential tool for improving both performance and usability. The Advanced Post Types Order plugin offers a powerful pagination feature designed to break down extensive lists into more manageable pages, leveraging the familiar WordPress pagination style.

Synchronize order across all languages when using Polylang

The Polylang plugin enables WordPress sites to offer content in multiple languages by allowing translation of posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies, menus, and other elements using native WordPress taxonomies and interfaces. The Advanced Post Types Order plugin integrates with Polylang to let site administrators define a manual or automatic ordering of content items that […]

Pagination on AJAX Sort List Update

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. […]

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.