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Custom Posts Order

By Hiren Patel

Active Installs

200+

Last Updated

May 21, 2026

First Released

September 1, 2015

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Custom Posts Order plugin will order posts with simple Drag and Drop Sortable capability. Place a shortcode in page, post, text widget or template files to display in front-end. It’s that simple.

  1. Quick and easy drag and drop for rearranging of posts.
  2. Set the number of posts to display in front-end.
  3. User can add different list of sections of particular posts.

Usage

Place this shortcode in page, post or text widget where you’d like to display posts.

[posts_order posts=2 section=porder_name]

Parameters

Custom Posts Order plugin supports the “posts” parameter where you can pass the number of posts you want to display in frontend and “section” parameter where you can pass the name of the section to be displayed in frontend. For example if you want to display 3 posts from Section1 at a time then place the following code:

[posts_order posts=3 section=Section1]

By default it displays 5 posts.

Templates

Place this shortcode in any template parts of your theme.

<?php echo do_shortcode('[posts_order posts=3 section="Section1"]'); ?>

Installation

  1. Upload “custom_posts_order” to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.

How to Use

  1. Place shortcode [posts_order posts=3 section=porder_name] in wordpress page, post or text widget, where in the “posts” parameter you can pass the number of posts and name of the section in “section” parameter you want to display in frontend. 5 posts will be displayed by default .
  2. Place the code <?php echo do_shortcode('[posts_order posts=3 section=porder_name]'); ?> in template files, where in the “posts” parameter you pass the number of posts and name of the section in “section” parameter you want to display in frontend. 5 posts will be displayed by default .
Having problems, questions, bugs & suggestions

Contact us at http://www.satvikinfotech.com/

Changelog

v1.0

  • Initial release version.

v4.0

  • Tested up to latest version.

v4.1

  • fixed some bugs.

v4.2

  • fixed some bugs.

v4.3

  • fixed some bugs.

v4.5

  • WordPress 7.0 / PHP 8.x compatibility; added nonces, capability checks, sanitization and output escaping throughout.
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Plugin Info

  • Version: 4.5
  • Last Updated: May 21, 2026
  • Active Installs: 200+
  • WordPress Version: 5.0 or higher
  • Tested up to: 7.0
  • PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
  • Tags:    
    drag-and-drop post-order reorder sort sortable

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