Custom Blog Post Reordering In WordPress

Wordpress is no doubt one of the best CMS around and with the awesome community out there contributing in all ways to make it the best of the best is really appreciative.

Well, few days back working on a wordpress project for a client, The client came up with some requirement and that was like, he would like to manually rearrange the Posts the way he wants and not the default date ordering of Wordpress.

But I had never heard about custom post order ever before untill the client mentioned about it and that made me look for the right plugin which would make this work out for me. And guess what, I came up with nearly 3 plugins which would serve the purpose.

I installed it on my test domain and checked it out. Whohooo! they worked and I settled with a plugin named Blog Reordering.

Installed it in the client's domain and then on client request documented the best way to use this plugin to reorder the posts and drafted a mail to him. Here's the mail which I prepared for the client:

As you want the posts to be reordered manually and do not want them to show up according to the date and time settings, We have a plugin named Post Reorder which will help us to the stuff of custom reordering of posts as we want.

Well, As it gives you the freedom to custom reorder the posts, Its kind of a manual work to reorder the posts as well.

And here's how you can achieve it:

1.Navigate to Blog Reordering section which is at the very bottom Settings in admin page of the wordpress.

2.Here you can find options such as "Blog reordering Settings", "Quick reorder by field" and "Blog reordering"

3. Let the first two option be as it is.

4. We need to worry only about the third option and that is where all reordering stuff takes place.

5.Here you can find all the posts listed down with the "ordering" numbed 1,2,....etc to the latest post you have up to date.

6.Now its all manual task, where you have to identify the right posts of each category and number them in the order you want.

For example:

You have 25 posts in personal category and all the 25 are randomly ordered and ordering number is also random according to the order they were posted.

Well, you need not worry about the random order each of the 25 posts of "personal" category has got, you can just go ahead and number them from 1 to 25 in the order you want them to display and that's it. When you check out the personal category page, all the 25 posts will be ordered the way you have set them. Now that's called absolute freedom!

Well, if there is no name to each of your posts, then it is kind of hectic knowing which posts is which one and the only option is to identify them via their ID's.

That's all about it. Did I miss anything relevant about this plugin ? Please do share it with me.

Thanks