Order posts under categories by “page order”

Hi Steve,

Can you confirm if you are trying to sort the posts which are displayed under categories, or the posts shown using the Pages widget?

 

Hi Steve,

The ordering options in the categories widget are just for categories, not the posts shown under the categories.

You may order the posts under categories by page order by adding the following filter to your active theme’s functions.php.

add_filter( 'advanced-sidebar-menu-pro/walker/display-posts/get-post-args', function ( $args ) { $args['orderby'] = 'menu_order'; return $args; } );

Have a great night!

Hi Steve,

Adjusting the URLs of page or post types is simple enough but can be prone to side effects. Mainly the result from the get_page_by_path function is always 0 if a parent page is missing from the URL, which prevents pages from loading.

The filter for remove /main for the URL is as follows:

add_filter( 'post_type_link', function ( $url ) { return str_replace( '/main', '', $url ); } );

In theory, if you provide me the slug of your custom post type, I can write a set a filters which will adjust the query to support a URL without the parent page it in.

Another option is to use the Custom Permalinks plugin to manually change the URL of the desired pages. The downside is you have to manually change of the pages. Looking at the code inside this plugin, it runs some pretty heavy queries, so you’ll only want to use it if you have persistent object cache enabled.

Hi Steve,

If you add the following filters to your active theme’s functions.php file:

1. The main/ part of the URL will be removed for links.
2. Single posts will load without the main/ being included in the URL.

These changes will only affect post within the “docs” post type.

add_filter( 'post_type_link', function ( $url, $post ) { if ( $post->post_type === 'docs' ) { return str_replace( '/main', '', $url ); } return $url; }, 10, 2 ); add_filter( 'request', function ( array $request ) { if ( ! isset( $request['post_type'], $request['name'] ) || $request['post_type'] !== 'docs' ) { return $request; } if ( strpos( $request['name'], 'main' ) === false && ! get_page_by_path( $request['name'], OBJECT, $request['post_type'] ) ) { $request['name'] = "main/{$request['name']}"; $request['docs'] = $request['name']; } return $request; } );

Have a great weekend!