aStickyPostOrderER : Plugin To Change WordPress Post Order
If you’d like to re-arrange the order that WordPress displays posts this plugin might help.
With aStickyPostOrderER you can customize the order of appearance of posts per category, per tag - or over-all - in a WordPress (versions 2.3+) blog. Useful for using WordPress as a Content Management System (C.M.S.).
NB! This will only work with WordPress 2.3+!
Download
Downloads and latest version now via the official WordPress plugins repository.
aStickyPostOrderER 0.2.2.2 Beta (22 December 2007) - This latest beta version includes the ability to set meta-stickiness, i.e. you can specify that post from a specific category or tag, or a specified number of posts of same should appear before or after the sorted posts, or after everything else.
Wish-list
In future I might add these abilities:
- to have stickiness expire at a certain point in time and such,
to also order per tagdone- specify CSS selectors or custom code insertion to identify ’sticky’ posts
- and have some auto configuration options etc.
- to propagate order set for parent categories to child categories
set entire category sticky etc.in beta- order-by-day and/or order-by-month etc. (Good idea, Thanx Mike!)
Ideas and requests most welcome!
Change Log
- v0.2.2.1 - 22 Dec 2007:
As described above, implemented the meta-stickiness functionality, bit more clean up of interface. - v0.2 - 18 Dec 2007:
Lots of stability improvements and as well as the interface elements for meta-stickiness - which when implemented will allow you to specify that you e.g. want the last 5 posts in a specific category(ies) or tag(s) to precede everything else, or move an entire category right to the ‘bottom’ and some stuff in between - more detail when I release the next version (hopefully with that part working. Special thanks to Alvise Nicoletti of for a significant amount of testing issues related to using the plugin with complex nested category structures - also for the great review of the plugin he’s published. - v0.1.7 - 2 Dec 2007:
Fixed bug in MySQL that created listing errors in some cases for some blogs that had been updated from previous versions of Wordpress. - v0.1.6 - 28 Nov 2007:
Adds ability to order posts per tag and improves interface showing no. of sorted posts / cat. or tag. - v0.1.5 - 27 Nov 2007:
Support for non-default database prefixes.
Not listing empty post categories as options for sorting.
Show name of the category being sorted while sorting. - v0.1.4 - 22 Nov 2007:
Fixed the creation of the database table at activation of the plugin. - v0.1.3 - 21 Nov 2007 :
Modified DB structure to eliminate errors reported associated with ambiguous field names, changing title to aStickyPostOrderER.
Background
I created this plugin to solve the cahallenge posed by non-trivial ordering of posts when using WordPress as a Content Management System(C.M.S.) at David Krut Publishing.
There we use a single WordPress install to run both the news and blog sections as well as a bookshop catalog - for news items the default reverse chronological order is perfect but in the case of books there are issues other than date of uploading to the site that should determine the prominence the particular ‘post’ about a book is given on the site. This plugin allows manulally configuring the order posts appear in when viewing a specific category - with ordered posts apearing first followed by the rest in their usual order without braking the default WordPress pagination.
Sites that use aStickyPostOrderER
If you use aStickyPostOrderER please pop me an email saying so with your URL (along with any praise you’d like to include:) to andre@pixelplexus.co.za and I’ll link to your site from here.
- Get Rich Geek
- Credit Cards AU
- Lake Garda Improvement Association (LGIA) Web Site
- Patent-Your-Inventions.com
- You Pick the Sermon
- Nokao, photography, web developement
Donations & Punting
Please consider making a donation towards my hosting
and/or giving this page a dig:
How To
- Unzip and place the ‘aStickyPostOrderER’ folder with its content in the WordPress plugins directory.
- Activate on the admin panel’s plugins page.
- Click on Manage, aStickyPostOrderER.
- Click on the name of a category or tag you want to order.
(Those with fewer than two posts are not displayed) - Posts in that category are listed, each with a text field to the right of it.
- Type a number into that field to make the corresponding post appear in that position relative to existing sorted posts, e.g. 1 to make it appear at the top, if there is already a post assigned to that position the sorted posts will be shifted up.
- To remove a sorted post from the sticky list, send it to position 0 (zero).
- Post that are not sorted will still appear in the default order after the sorted posts on the blog’s front-end.
Known Issues
- Themes that execute their own MySQL queries may not (read ‘probably won’t') show the posts in the sorted order. A good way to test is by using the Default theme and comparing results.
- There were various issues with previous versions that affected especially blogs with content that had been upgraded from earlier versions of WordPress, please use the latest version of the plugin.
By the way, if you are looking at this because you are interested in or already into building revenue generating websites please have a look at our affiliate marketing network, OfferForge that was built by and is run by the co. I work at ForgeBusiness
November 20th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Nice candidate fot “best of” plugin!
I’ll give it a try during next week.
Just a question:
What happens if there are two posts with same “order number”? Or what happens if I want to make some post number 2 but there is already a post marked with nr.2?
Keep on the good work and thank you for making this great plugin!
November 21st, 2007 at 12:14 am
AlainS: Thanx :-)
At the moment, if there is allready a sorted post at position 2 the post you assigned to 2 will move to position 3 and all other sorted posts after 2 will shift up to make space for it.
I’ll probably rewrite the logic to move the original no 2 post to position 3 in the next version
November 21st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Hi Andre,
Great plug-in — been looking for something like this for ages!
fyi - I did have to create the db table manually from the info in the php file? Not sure why it didn’t create it automatically? (using version 2.3.1)
But it works great now. Any chance of up/down arrows in a future release?
Many thanks,
Ben
November 21st, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Andre!!!! You are a lifesaver… this plugin totally saved me hours of frustration today. I had the same problem as Ben with the auto-creation of the table not working… It was pretty easy to pull the information from the “function croer_install” (line 158 of astickypostorderer.php)
after that it was flawless…
thx again
Marty
November 21st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
I’ll have a look at the DB code tonight, sorry about that.
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 am
Andre,
This is a fantastic plugin. You’ve just answered the wishes of many WordPress users.
I’m running your aStickyPostOrderRE 0.1.4 Beta on two WordPress 2.3.1 sites, and it works perfectly.
Very nice work. Thank you so much!
– Eric
November 25th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Great job!!!
For some reason creators of WP has forgoten about such basic option (I’m not able to understand why).
There’s one thing to improve, links from post subject should lead to site not http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/ site (for instance: http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/dkp/?p=5).
Thank you very much for your work!!
November 26th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Your a Star!!
I have been playing with an Idea of WordPress as my Main Website for my Articles.
But my lessons are in Order or will be when i post them.
So this plugin not only works great easy install, Its changed how i am going to use WP now.
I like many spent hours trying to figure out post order.
I looked in the support forums, seems many questions dont get replys, I am so thankful i found your post.
Again your a star, Thanks so much for a great plugin!
Andrew Garley
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November 27th, 2007 at 7:13 am
b.t.w. the next version will be ready in the next day or two and, allows you to sort by tag
A
November 27th, 2007 at 11:03 am
This may be too trivial for this plugin, but I’d be really happy if there was a “reverse order” option per category. Right now I use either pages or category templates, but simply clicking an option in your reorder plugin would be far easier.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Rirath: I’ll see what I can do for you in the next version.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Thanks so much for this great plugin! I’ve tried it out on several of our WP installations and found two problems:
- I got an error message after “Select a different category to re-order”. The error message is
*Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in (…)/wp-content/plugins/aStickyPostOrderER/croer-listcats.php on line 34* Then the ordering table appears, but with IDs with empty names etc. Looks like in former times deleted categories. But the posts can be ordered, anyway.
- In WP installations with DB prefixes other than “wp_” (eg. “wp_secure” for different weblogs on the same DB or for security reasons) the plugin seems to have problems.
Hope this information helps! Keep pushing, great work!!!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Mike: Thanx, re the prefix - that actually occur occurred to me this morning (round about the time I noticed the pingback from Weblog Tools… irk) will try to get a fix out tonight! - the MySQL error seems a bit strange will look into that, you were using WordPress 2.3+?
November 27th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
… for clarification of the SQL error: have a look at this screenshot. The site runs 2.3.1.
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very nice plugin for all cms related sites i.e. gossips and news sites thanks
November 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been so frustrated! Life is so much beter now!
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December 1st, 2007 at 12:11 pm
this plugin is awesome! but i get the following error:
[Table 'xyz.wp_croer_posts' doesn't exist] …
i am using wordpress 2.3.1
can anyone help?
December 1st, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Hi Sven
which version of the plugin are you using, and where do you get the error? If you could send me a html page source of the page where you see the error that would make it easier to identify the issue
A
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 am
New version version 0.1.7 fixes some MySQL flaws.
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:34 pm
v0.1.7 works excellent, Thks!
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December 5th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
‘word1.wp_croer_posts’ doesn’t exist
that is the error I recieved. I created my blog in a folder named “word1″ and then moved it to my root without a problem. I would love for this to work. Any ideas? as to the problem.
using latest wordpress with the blixed theme
http://www.youpickthesermon.com
December 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Thank you so much for this plugin! This is the first plugin I have tried to use with our blog that worked on the first try. Thank you for making my life a little easier today!
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December 12th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Hi…
I’m trying your plugin but in the main page I don’t have all categories, I miss the 3 I need to re-order.
What can it be? an incompatiblity with one of my other plugins?
My Category Order ( http://www.geekyweekly.com/mycategoryorder )
Top Level Categories ( http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/ )
?
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December 22nd, 2007 at 2:45 pm
This is a great plugin indeed.
I have a problem with international characters. I’m using it in a Hebrew blog, and I seed question marks instead of category names and post names.
Is there a solution or workaround for this issue?
Thanks,
Yohay.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I’ll have to get to looking at the internationalization a bit later, have some real work waiting, in the meantime Yohay mailed me a hack to fix the encoding issue:
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December 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Hi,
I am getting the following errors. WordPress database error: [Table 'golfs_wrdp1.wp_croer_posts' doesn't exist]
Please advise.
Website is yourimprovegolfswing.com
Thanks.
December 28th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Version: 0.2.2.3 fixes the problem Andrew identified above.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Hi,
I used it but error is now on
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/golfs/public_html/wp-content/plugins/astickypostorderer/astickypostorderer.php on line 203
Thanks again.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
WordPress: v2.3.1
MySQL: v5.0.45-community-nt
PHP: v4.4.7
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
v0.2.2.3 reported”
Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in D:\Domains\sunrisedancer.com\www\weathervane\wp-content\plugins\astickypostorderer\croer-functions.php on line 10Categories
Warning: mysql_numrows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in D:\Domains\sunrisedancer.com\www\weathervane\wp-content\plugins\astickypostorderer\croer-listcats.php on line 92
Warning: mysql_numrows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in D:\Domains\sunrisedancer.com\www\weathervane\wp-content\plugins\astickypostorderer\croer-listcats.php on line 92
Regards.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Sorry guys, I obviously still have a few things to learn about the whole subversion business, turns out I’d gotten some old code mixed with the latest code thus the errors reported on fresh installs of ASPOE 0.2.2.2 to 0.2.2.3, the very latest version aStickyPostOrderER 0.2.2.5 fixes all those issues as far as I’ve been able to test on various setups. Thanx for the head-ups!
A
December 30th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Hi, This error remains.
WordPress database error: [Table 'golfs_wrdp1.wp_croer_posts' doesn't exist]
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.*, wp_sticky.sticky_status , wp_croer_posts.post_rank IS NULL AS isnull FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_sticky ON wp_sticky.sticky_post_id = wp_posts.ID LEFT JOIN wp_croer_posts ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_croer_posts.post_id AND wp_croer_posts.cat_id = 0) WHERE 1=1 AND post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status = ‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’) ORDER BY isnull ASC, wp_croer_posts.post_rank ASC, (wp_sticky.sticky_status = 2 AND wp_sticky.sticky_status IS NOT NULL) DESC, DATE_FORMAT(wp_posts.post_date,’%Y-%m-%d’) DESC, (wp_sticky.sticky_status = 1 AND wp_sticky.sticky_status IS NULL) DESC, DATE_FORMAT(wp_posts.post_date,’%T’) DESC LIMIT 0, 10
Thanks!!
January 12th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Great plugin! Would love to see some options to change the way posts are ordered by default, such as ascending/descending, chronologically, alphabetically, etc. Also I think it’s worth mentioning somewhere that the previous/next post links on the single post pages won’t magically be updated to reflect the new post order (though it would be great if you could find some way to do this)!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Hi SuperAnn
Thanx for the great suggestions, the next previous links didn’t even occur to me (I usually write my own templates and very seldom if ever use them) I’m slightly overloaded at the moment but will see about expanding the options and features soon.
By the way love your site, especially your bio and your music ain’t bad either :-)
Best.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
the great plugin!!!
Why not consider using UI SORTABLES like http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Sortables ? It would be very functional.
Thanks
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February 6th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
I am still getting the Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /htdocs/www/wp-content/plugins/aStickyPostOrderER/croer-listcats.php on line 38.
When I look at the tables that are created for this plugin, they are empty, should they have populated at ‘activation time’ ?
Thank for any help… this looks like a great tool, i hope I can get it working
–Mike
February 7th, 2008 at 11:25 am
nice plugin.
thanks..
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February 18th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I’m running into an issue;
Currently i can sort subcategories perfectly, when i sort the parent category the posts remain unchanged on the site (they do show sorted in the plug-in however).
I am using ver. 0.2.2.7 of the plug-in and ver. 2.3.3 of wordpress.
Thank you for any help and for the great plug-in!
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:07 pm
A really great plugin, and exactly what i’m looking for…
unfortunately I’m not able to handle it the way i want it…
I’m trying to have one specific post at the bottom of the main index page on position 10 …
is there a way to achieve this?
Thanks and Cheers
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February 25th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Does this also sort the order of the next/previous links or only the category list page?
I’ve got it showing the category list pages correct, but the next/previous are out of sync with that. Did I miss something???
February 25th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
MotherFury (& SuperAnn): the next previous links issue is something I still want to look at - just literally haven’t had time to :-(
I suspect that it should sort if you use the default WordPress pagination, but some themes do create their own MySQL queries for next and previous posts in which case it wont work (the plugin just ads some extra conditions to the normal WordPress MySQL request) - if you sent me your theme’s archive.php file I should be able to tell from that if it creates a different query.
A
February 25th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
PS. sticky posts won’t show up on all pages, if anyone wants that please let me know - I could make a plan in the next version - but I suspect the other sticky post plugins allready facilitate that.
February 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Very great plugin, Andre. I just can’t figure out if it can work interacting with customized ‘query_posts’: I use it to offset posts and give different style rules to (for example) the first two posts since your plugin leaves post code intact, but stickiness then doesn’t work coherently.
Thanks for your work.
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March 4th, 2008 at 2:33 am
This is the bomb. Thank God it did not take me long to find this valueable plug. AndreSC, you are the MAN.
Thank you.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Great plug-in — been looking for something like this for ages!
March 10th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I have it working great on category pages in main loop, but can’t get it to work with any sidebar loops. Have tried every methods I can locate. This seems standard for pulling multiple loop info and should pull ID info, but doesn’t work. Only stays in descending order. Any suggestions?
Any clues on cause or solution?
LAH
March 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Did you get the code I included with last comment–didn’t appear in field whne message posted? Thanks again for any input.
LAH
March 14th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
hi, the plugin is nice however it does not work, i think this is because of other plugins that i have for example i am using advanced category excluder and when i activate this plugin i get “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” on the main page
i am using wp 2.3.3
March 15th, 2008 at 3:20 am
Thanks Andre! You are a lifesaver. This plug-in is awesome.
One suggestion would be to use pagination when selecting the post order. I’ve got over 7000 posts, so it takes a very long time for the page to load when I’m selecting the post order.
Nonetheless, this is an awesome plugin!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Is there any chance this plugin will ever be able to alphabetize the posts, and use that for sort order?
March 28th, 2008 at 4:41 am
Hi JC,
Nice plugin.
However, I want to make a post appear as the 2nd post “overall” on the blog homepage.
However, when I put the number “2″ in the “send to” box, the post always defaults to the number 1 position.
How can I simply make a single post always appear as the 2nd post, without having to re-order all the other posts every time I add a new post?
I’d be happy to contribute if I can get this functionality!
Best Regards,
N~
March 28th, 2008 at 4:45 am
Sorry Andre,
In the post above, just so you know, I’m using Wordpress 2.3.3 with the default template.
Thanks!
N~
April 5th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, and am very sad to see that this seems to have been broken. Any chance it can be fixed?
Kudos anyway for a great idea.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Hi guys, I ‘ve been trying for a while now to get rouud to fixing up a new version, hopefully tomorrow
April 7th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Wonderful, I have been looking for a plugin like this for years. It’s a pity I have already upgraded to 2.5 before finding out about it. But regardless, this seem to be an exceptional piece of code, we can’t thank you enough!
April 8th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hey
Thats a great plugin.
But I cant use it :( , I need a plugin which can make a sticky for a specific category.
Like for adobe Photoshop , sticky this post : “What is adobe photoshop ?”
and for PHP , sticky this post : “What is PHP ?”
can you do it please?? if yes, then please let me know VIA email.
Thanks
April 10th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Hi.
I would like to contact the person who has made the Site: http://cr.editcards.com.au/
Thanks in advance and kind regards.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Hi
Any news about an upgrade for 2.5?
Would it help if some of us wannacontinueashappy users took you for a round of beer? I’m a bit eager on this…
@ Bilai - I believe this is just how I use this plugin (building dolcevita.no/wp - category menu on left (Italia rundt))
Thanks,
April 11th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Thanks for the great plugin, Andre.
As Stephen G. said above, I can’t get it to recognize sorting on parent categories. Works fine for the child cats, but the parents do not sort - just ID order desc (well date order, really). Even if I remove the sort from the child cat the parent still doesn’t sort.
I didn’t see this in the list of know issues or plans, but also didn’t see you comment on it, so I don’t know if I’m missing something or if this is a know problem.
Anyway, thanks again!
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April 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Guys, I’m sorry, I promise soon!!!
@ Kjetil, probably better to hold those beers till after its fixed, wouldn’t want to go near the code on a few drinks, might not escape again :-/
All of that said if someone else wants to dig through the code to issolate the issues, I’d would not be offended, if they can make sense of it - I’m feeling like a dog here :-( and can hardly find the time to, uhm, blow my nose and such
For what its worth there are some 2.5 sites running it without any issues, notably the dkp that I built it for originally, so it might just be theme related.
When you talk about parent cats not sorting, do they not soert in the admin or on the front-end?
If its in admin try this,
in croer-transact.php, change the code to read:
//insert new$count=0;
foreach($c_new_inserts as $c_pid => $c_pos) {
$count++;
$sql= "INSERT INTO ".$wpdb->prefix."croer_posts (croer_id, post_id, cat_id, post_rank) ".
"VALUES (NULL, '$c_pid', '$croer_cat', '$count')"; // $count was $c_pos
//echo "
insert sql: $sql”;
$result= mysql_query($sql) or die(”errr:”.mysql_error());
}
//
?>
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April 18th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
sorry to hear your feeling ill
any news on update.
is it theme related or is a general issue?
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
i have the same prob.
posts in parent categories do not order.
plus, in the rearrange all posts i have now empty slots. meaning a position is occupied by nothing. its as if it did not refresh the order after a post was deleted or something.
one more thing is that after working on a test server and arranging posts i imported the entire database to live and the links remained the ones of the test servers.
i have indeed upgraded to 2.5 recently and this appeared only after.
if u check the blog you will see its about a peace and conflict timeline in sri lanka. so ordering is crucial. your plugin made this website be a reality. please help me out. its for a good cause :)
thanks,
C
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Great plugin, tnx a lot for it! :D
There is something I tried to do but it can’t. I’d like to set a post to a specific position.
For exemple, in a blog set to show 10 posts on each page, set a post to always stay on the 4th position, independent of new posts posted.
Or I post a new post but but don’t want it on the first page, so I set it to 12th position, forcing it to stay on the 2nd position.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
We really like the plugin but is there a way to allow the user to decide whether to view the most recent posts also?
Ben
April 28th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
any news on why it doesnt order the parent category posts in wp 2.5.1? it shows as ordered in admin but the front end is incorrect.
here’s the problem: http://pact.lk/period/1950s/
anxiously waiting for a reply/fix/upgrade/anything :)
thanks in advance,
C
April 28th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hiya guys, new version just uploaded:
2.2.8 (2008/04/28)
* Fixed parent categories not showing order in WordPress 2.5.1
* Fixed weirdness previously resulting from removing posts from being ordered
* Created index.php page (noticed content of plugin folder indexed on Google :-( )
April 29th, 2008 at 1:31 am
WOW!
Most awesome plugin!
Have PayPaled a small token of my gratitude…
Cheers
April 29th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Thanx - much appreciated!
April 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
YES! You release the version I need, the day before I need it. You effin rock Andre, and so does ur plugin.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:02 am
WordPress notifies 2.2.8 is available, what was changed? :P
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
hey,
thank you very much. all issues sorted. this is a super plugin and you are awesome.
thanks from pact.lk
C
May 16th, 2008 at 11:44 am
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May 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Hello, and thanks a lot for your Category Visibility plug-in.
Unfortunately, there’s an incompatibility with the Category Visibility plug-in by iPeat ( http://www.ipeat.com/?page_id=91 ).
When they’re both activated, the front page is empty ( “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” ).
When they’re activated individually, everything is normal.
The problem is that I need both functionalities…
My site runs WP 2.5.1
Would you have any hint as how to fix that? Thanks in advance.
(I’ve posted a similar message in the other plug-in’s comments)
May 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
LOL, I meant “thanks a lot for your AStickyPostOrderER plugin”, obviously!
May 18th, 2008 at 6:39 am
After setting the order of blog entries within one of my categories, the order of blog entries did not change.
I clicked on the name of the category that I wanted to change the order of blog entries, and saved.
My blog has developed a lot of categories (on it’s own), but there is only the one category that I wish to change the order of posts in.
Maybe there is something else I am suppose to do to that category so that it has a number one position over all the other categories?
Help please?
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
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May 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
hi. Thanks for plugin
May 30th, 2008 at 3:59 am
“Kingwhite Says:
MARCH 14TH, 2008 AT 5:45 PM
hi, the plugin is nice however it does not work, i think this is because of other plugins that i have for example i am using advanced category excluder and when i activate this plugin i get “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” on the main page
i am using wp 2.3.3″
I’m having the same issue as this chap. I really need both plugins :)
i’m running:
WP 2.5.1
Advanced Cat Excluder 1.1
AStickyPostOrderER 0.2.2.8
Thanks!
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June 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hello Everyone,
Has anyone tried the plugin in an MU install?
This looks like something I ‘ve been looking for.
I hope it works in MU. I will try it over the weekend
and post results.
Thanks, Andre. :-)
June 28th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Hi! Great plugin. At first it didn’t work on my wordpress 2.5.1 But after reading a post from above, I tried disabling one of the category plugin I am using, Category Visibility-iPeat Rev disabled and it works. Seems like this plugin have problems working with other category plugins.
June 29th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Hello!
Could you indicate as to why ASPO will not work in themes running their own queries and which topics to read on to maybe find a solution?
My concrete problem is that i would like to show a sidebar listing of posts on the single php, where posts from ordererd categories are shown.
Thnaks
Malte
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Spicer23: noidea, would be interesting to hear
oysterboy: basically ASPO talks to wordpress in wordpress lingo and just adds a bit of logic to the normal wordpress query process. Themes that run their own queries (1) typically don’t offer hooks through which to interact with them not to mention the headache of multitude of possible permutatations. That said I don’t see any reason you can’t achieve what you are after. Consider having a look at the croer the_sort function which is what does most of the heavy lifting at post query time. H.t.h.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
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August 11th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
does aStickyPostOrderER work with Wordpress 2.6?
August 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Dunno, haven’t tried yet but it should
August 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
What I am looking for is the ability to sort order per category (which you have provided), but based on a preset, like date/time (already mentioned) or(!) some kind of prefix in the post title. The reason for this is that I’ve decided to use Worpress for my studies - I am working through a book, chapter by chapter, writing summaries and comments, and I want to be able to view the results as written - chapter 1, paragraph one at the beginning. In time, there will be more than one book here, so I have created a category for the writer, and a subcategory for the book. If I could use simple notating while writing an article, like Chapter 1.5.3.1 (I’ve seen books with more levels, even) and have wordpress sort it out, so much the better. But seeing as I go through this chapter by chapter anyway, even date-sorting, or simple backward sorting would work.
August 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
p.s. this plugin works even with version 2.2.8, and considering the subject, sorting, it will probably work with any future version as well, barring a restructured database.
August 13th, 2008 at 8:18 am
It works in 2.6
August 25th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Love the plugin! Is it still being developed? If so, I’m wondering if the order by date / order by month is in the works? I’d like to make a donation.
August 26th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Hiya Mike
Yup its certainly still under development, though the development has slowed right down as it allready does more than what I need from it on the sites I made it for. That said donations certainly keeps the fire butrning in terms of rolling out improvements ;-) I really appreciate donations! ( - especially when they come with interesting feature requests and useful feedback:)
September 12th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
The plugin works fine even under WP 2.6, however it conflicts with SidePosts widget: the side posts won’t show up anymore when aSticky is activated. Is there a way to exclude a category from the plugin to avoid conflicting?
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October 16th, 2008 at 4:35 am
thanks for this plug in. Exactly what I need to help manage the exact order of posts for our site.
Bless you.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
This plugin is exactly what I was looking for!! Unfortunately, however, when I installed it, the featured category listings on the home page stopped working: http://womenshealthbase.com.
I had to uninstall the plugin for now because of this but I wanted to see if there might be a solution. The featured category listings are using a WP_Query to show 3 posts from the category. I tried making those categories super sticky, I tried ordering all the posts within that I wanted to show on the homepage, but nothing worked.
Can you help? Thanks!
October 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I’m trying to solve the same issue as Randa. I think that it conflicts with the MySql calls of my theme (mentioned under “Known Issues”) though it’s worth checking. I’m using this code to pull most recent posts from categories that have not been re-ordered by asticky.
have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<a href=”" id=”post- “rel=nofollow”>
Any thoughts?
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November 4th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Excellent plugin! I was having the same problem as Randa and Tim with a home page template with post queries. Everything got sorted out once I made my home.php an actual template, created a page to use the template, and changed my Settings > Reading to use the home page for my front page.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hey!
That plugin sounds great, just what I needed. Is there a plugin version compatible for Wordpress version 2.6 + planned, too?
Fritz
November 8th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Great plugin ! one thing i did notice that not all my tags show up in the admin panel, only the A’s in the list. Maybe I have too many for this list, so i created a special tag called 11 and it is at the top of the list allowing me to choose that for stickyness.
Thanks again.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
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November 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Has anyone come up with a workaround for the next_post_link and previous_post_link in single.php? It looks like SuperAnn and MotherFury had the same issue I’m having. Other than that, love the plugin!
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December 10th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Great plugin ! one thing i did notice that not all my tags show up in the admin panel, only the A’s in the list. Maybe I have too many for this list, so i created a special tag called 11 and it is at the top of the list allowing me to choose that for stickyness.
Thanks again.
December 18th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Seems to work in 2.7. Great plugin. Many thanks.
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January 14th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
WIll there be an update for the latest 2.9 wordpress
there is no longer a manage ” tab” to make this plugin work now to use it ?
January 25th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Thanks for the plug in. Am using it on 2.7 and works well when ordering by category. Not too well on ordering by tags but may be due to the huge number of tags I have. But all in all - enabled me to order my posts exactly as I wanted to. Thanks very much
February 4th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
great plugin. please keep on developing and releasing :)
February 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thank you so much for this plugin. Is there any way to enable it for use by Editors? I do use Role Manager, but I’m having no luck with anyone being able to access it under the “Tools” menu except for Admins.
If anyone has any ideas, I’d be grateful.
February 10th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
great plugin!
I am very interested in the “order-by-day” option. Is there a way I can convince you to implement this?
February 12th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Hi,
Great plugin, but I’m also having this problem with WP2.7 and the default theme:
“MotherFury (& SuperAnn): the next previous links issue is something I still want to look at - just literally haven’t had time to :-(
I suspect that it should sort if you use the default WordPress pagination, but some themes do create their own MySQL queries for next and previous posts in which case it wont work (the plugin just ads some extra conditions to the normal WordPress MySQL request) - if you sent me your theme’s archive.php file I should be able to tell from that if it creates a different query.
“
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February 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I’ve downloaded your plugin but it won’t work with the F8 theme that I am using…
February 25th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
ohhh thank you for this.. i download it now
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March 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Hi, thanks for putting the effort into keeping this going! I like the way you can sort the posts, but I need one step further - the ability to make it do so under the category list. I’ve a plugin that’s pulling the categories and posts, and I’d like to see if I can swap in a call to ASPO’s functions to use ASPO to order them. Can you help me figure this out?
Here’s what the other plugin uses to get and impose sort options on the posts for each category:
‘$posts = get_posts(’category=’ . $category->term_id . ‘&orderby=post_date&order=DESC&numberposts=9999′)’
If this would take significant effort and you’ve the spare time, we can talk about my supporting the work via email.
Thanks again!
D
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 am
I mean, we can talk via email about my supporting the work ;)
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hmm, need to report a small issue. I’ve removed sorts from posts within a category, and removed posts from within that category. The posts removed still show as being in that category in the ASPO admin page. Any idea of how I can clear the appropriate table so that those old entries go away?
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May 27th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
This is a great plug-in. Using it on 2.7.1
Having an issue when I sort posts from a category they sort correctly on that catgories page that I link to, however, they no longer appear on the main index page. I get “the post may have been deleted” error. If I disable the plug-in things work again. Even if I “unsort” the posts the error remains. A bug perhaps?
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August 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
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August 26th, 2009 at 12:12 am
Instead of listing all of the categories, posts, tags, etc, have a search field to find the categories, posts, etc, to sticky. For large sites like ours that have 1000’s of tags and categories. In it’s current state we can’t use the plugin, as it freezes the browser trying to list all the data.
Thanks for an awesome plug-in and all the hard work!
September 24th, 2009 at 6:32 am
Is it possible to allow a user with Editor level permission to access aStickyPostOrder in the Tools section? Currently it’s only available to an Admin user.
Or is it possible to create link to this from Dashboard to allow my Editors to make changes without having Admin control?
Any ideas?
thanks,
John
October 7th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I use Wordpress 2.8.4 and plugin version 0.3. Documentation says to order posts via the ‘manage’ tab. But Wordpress 2.8.4 doesn’t have a ‘manage’ tab. How can I access the plugin? It is already installed and activated, but I just don’t see where to access it.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am
hi, look in tools on the left
October 18th, 2009 at 1:24 am
@John:
You can change which users will see the “AStickPostOrderER” link in the Dashboard by modifying “/wp-content/plugins/astickypostorderer/astickypostorderer.php” around line 38 you should see something like:
add_submenu_page(’post-new.php’, ‘Category Display Order’, ‘Category Display Order’, 7, ‘astickypostorderer’, ‘astickypostorderer_page’);
The code above is the modification I use to change the name of the link in the Dashboard to “Category Display Order” and allow user levels 7 and above to see the link. Change the 7 in the code above to the user level that you want to give access to. (10 is admin). The code above also moves the link from the “Tools” submenu and places it under the “Posts” submenu.
October 18th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Is there a way to modify the plugin so that I don’t have to use the “sticky order” for custom queries? On my Category/Archive Pages I want the first 3 posts as determined by AStickyPostOrderER, but then below I want a list of all posts in the category sorted by title alphabetically. I see in the code that this plugin modifies all “query_posts”. I’m looking for a way to add an exception where query_posts is NOT modified by the “croer_the_sort” function.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Great plugin, but having an issue with it: my (yearly) archives show no posts at all, and my homepage just shows the stickied post. Am I overlooking something? Cheers.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
On the main admin page for the plugin “=astickypostorderer” is there a way to have the categories be listed alphabetically rather than them be listed by category id number? Currently they are shown as being listed from 1-300 or so.. I have over 300 categories and being able to search alphabetically is much easier to make changes. So basically I’d like the admin page to show the categories by ascending or descending order..
October 29th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Hi all
Interest in this plugin seems to be increasing while I thought by now it would be fading with Wordpress’s sticky option. I’m completely snowed under with work but am gonna try and put an update together over the weekend to address some of the issues and requests. Would appreciate examples of the template files from themes where posts dissapear etc.
Ciao
A
November 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Is this compatible with Wordpress 2.8.5
November 12th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Hey there, I’ve installed your plug in into 2.8.5 and activated it, yet it’s not showing up at all. There is no link for it in the settings list, no way to manage it. Is this an 2.8.5 issue? Have you heard of this?
Thanks!
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January 13th, 2010 at 12:36 am
“Ridewithjoe Says:
May 27th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
This is a great plug-in. Using it on 2.7.1
Having an issue when I sort posts from a category they sort correctly on that catgories page that I link to, however, they no longer appear on the main index page. I get “the post may have been deleted” error. If I disable the plug-in things work again. Even if I “unsort” the posts the error remains. A bug perhaps?”
I get the same error…using the same version 2.7.1…does anybody know how to fix it?
January 20th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Hi
I just installed your stickypost orderer plugin and it fixed the problem I ‘ve been having immediately - I just wanted to say thanks very much - if I had lots of money I would donate but unfortunately I don’t so I though at least a thankyou would be nice :)
Ben
January 22nd, 2010 at 12:49 am
Hi, love your plugin but seem to be having a problem, I’ve set it up so that category ‘featured’ will be super-sticky with a limit of one. It is placing only one post from that cat at the top, but it is the oldest post not the newest. Any ideas? (wp 2.9.1).
January 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 am
Please take a look at this thread at Wordpress.org
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/344865?replies=6
It is about a problem I encountered, and I’ve narrowed it down to this plugin. At this point I’m just looking for a work-around.
(I can’t believe the WP developers still haven’t incorporated category-level sticky logic yet).