CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Laurie,

I am dragging and dropping the posts in the Dashboard posts area to organize by last name- is this not the right location to set the post order. I was not sure where else to organize based on how the Simple Custom post order plugins works.

This is correct. The Posts dashboard page is the right location to set the post order by dragging and dropping.

For more info: what I am seeing is I organize the posts into the correct order in the dashboard and it works on the front end but if i refresh the dashboard, it reverts to the old order. What am i doing wrong?

The order looks correct for me in the admin dashboard: https://epibios.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=adjunct-faculty

Is the order still looking incorrect on your side, Laurie?

I went to do this with the adjunct facaulty page and cannot get the posts to stay in order...

The Kadence Posts Block settings were missing the "Adjunct Faculty" category and the "Select the post taxonomy" option needed to be unchecked. See attached screenshot. Let me know if the block looks the way it should now.

Hi Ray,

thanks for clarifying. It does look correct on the front end but i am confused because that order is not reflected in the dashboard post list? see screenshots. I feel like I am being particularly dense about this so I apologize!

Hmm, not sure what is causing the order on the Posts admin dashboard page to look wrong on your side, Laurie.

I've attached a screenshot of what I'm seeing. I can try and debug the Posts admin dashboard page for your account later today to see what might be causing the issue, but I have to step out for a bit.

I was able to duplicate your problem, Laurie. See attached screenshot.

If you go directly to the following admin URL -- https://epibios.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/edit.php?category_name=adjunct-faculty -- the custom sort order will work.

However, if you are using the category dropdown filter on the Posts admin dashboard page, the custom sort order will not take place. The reason why is when you use the category dropdown filter, an empty 's' parameter is added to the URL querystring in the address bar. The 's' parameter signifies that a search is made. Even if the 's' parameter is empty when you use the category dropdown filter, WordPress's is_search() function will still return true. The is_search() function is used by the Simple Custom Post Order plugin to determine whether their custom sort order should take place or not: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/blob/6704e33b8a99c807237f4e5fed76d3c23725c66d/wp-content/plugins/simple-custom-post-order/simple-custom-post-order.php#L874-L876. So at the moment, when you use the category dropdown filter, the custom sort order will not work. I've notified the plugin author with a fix here: https://github.com/ColorlibHQ/simple-custom-post-order/pull/153.

I've also committed the fix for the next maintenance release scheduled in mid-July in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c9decfe0d670e6987f6c73b7dbbb57987996394a, but for now, Laurie, to view the custom post order for a category, use the category link in the "Categories" posts column and do not use the "All Categories" dropdown filter.