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Advanced Post Types Order
Advanced Post Types Order extends WordPress content ordering beyond one archive-wide sequence. It is designed for sites that need separate ordering rules for posts, pages, or custom post types across taxonomies, filtered views, and more complex queries.
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Overview
Advanced Post Types Order is aimed at WordPress sites where a single drag-and-drop order is not enough. The plugin can organize hierarchical or non-hierarchical post types and provides manual or automatic sorting options for content such as posts, pages, products, events, portfolios, and other custom records. Its more advanced use case is contextual ordering: a site owner can define different sequences for taxonomy terms or filtered areas instead of applying one global order everywhere.\n\nThe administrative workflow combines a visual sorting interface with options for list or grid presentation, search, filters, thumbnails, and pagination. Automatic rules can use values such as creation time, post ID, name, slug, author, random order, custom fields, or taxonomy-related criteria. Documentation also shows that custom queries can retrieve items in a saved order through WordPress query arguments, which is relevant for custom templates and REST-based workflows.\n\nThis is a configuration-heavy plugin rather than a simple archive sorter. Before using it on a production site, test each ordering rule with the theme, query builder, caching layer, WooCommerce or multilingual setup, and any AJAX filters.
Manual drag-and-drop ordering for posts, pages, and custom post types, including hierarchical post types.
Automatic sorting by criteria such as creation time, post ID, name, slug, author, random order, or custom-field values.
Context-sensitive ordering rules that can target taxonomy terms, filtered areas, or other defined query conditions.
Advanced query controls for combining post types, taxonomies, meta values, and authors in complex sorting setups.
Admin sorting tools with list or grid views, search and interface filters, thumbnails, and pagination.
Natural-language AI prompts for creating structured sorting rules, according to the developer’s 2026 product documentation.
Saved custom ordering can be used in custom WordPress queries with menu_order and related query arguments.
Compatibility and setup context
- The developer lists support or compatibility options for WordPress multisite, WPML, Polylang, WooCommerce, Genesis, and other ecosystem components; verify the exact integration on staging before deployment.
- The official documentation demonstrates use with WP_Query and taxonomy queries, but custom themes and query builders should be tested to confirm they preserve the intended order.
- The product page identifies front-end and admin sorting workflows, while the separate usage documentation shows that custom query configuration may be needed when automatic sorting is disabled.
- The developer’s changelog records ongoing WordPress compatibility checks and maintenance; confirm the current plugin release and your site’s WordPress/PHP requirements before purchase or installation.
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- The official product page documents manual drag-and-drop ordering, automatic ordering, hierarchical post types, taxonomy and custom-field sorting, filters, thumbnails, list/grid views, and front-end or admin sorting interfaces.
- The official documentation provides examples for retrieving custom post types in a saved order and applying an order within a taxonomy term using WP_Query arguments.
- The developer’s documentation index identifies guides for advanced sort lists, multiple post types, taxonomies, meta values, authors, conditionals, and manual or automatic sorting.
- The developer documents natural-language AI prompt sorting as a feature that converts plain-language instructions into structured ordering logic.
- The official changelog records recent maintenance, WordPress compatibility checks, and the introduction of AI prompt sorting in 2026.
- The official WordPress.org page for the developer’s related Post Types Order plugin identifies Advanced Post Types Order as the extended version and lists advanced capabilities including taxonomy sorting, conditional application, multisite, multilingual, WooCommerce, front-end sorting, and paginatio
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Version
5.0
Last Updated
Dec 2, 2025
File Size
0.2 MB
License
GPL
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