The question:
I have a special case where I’d like to order posts in a custom order and it would be great to use the “menu_order” field that is normally only used for pages. What would be the best way to expose that in the WordPress admin UI?
The Solutions:
Below are the methods you can try. The first solution is probably the best. Try others if the first one doesn’t work. Senior developers aren’t just copying/pasting – they read the methods carefully & apply them wisely to each case.
Method 1
Apparently it’s as easy as:
add_action( 'admin_init', 'posts_order_wpse_91866' );
function posts_order_wpse_91866()
{
add_post_type_support( 'post', 'page-attributes' );
}
And then doing the query:
$order_posts = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'orderby' => 'menu_order',
'order' => 'ASC',
) );
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