It is official the long awaited v2 of this great plugin is now available at the Wordpress.org repository for download.
OFFICIAL Plugin Page on Dyasonhat
It was previously planned that this plugin might not feature sorting posts by custom fields but I’m glad to say that this functionality has been retained in this version and is better than ever.
Thank you to all those who offered words of encouragement during the process and the patience for it’s LONG arrival.
Enjoy sorting your posts by ANY field you like!!!
Progress on our smart sort plugin is currently on target for release in next couple of weeks.
A decision has been made to release 2 versions of the plugin
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- Free Version
Will enable sorting of posts only
Sorting will only be available on fields from the wp_posts table
This essentially mean that sorting by: title, date added, date modified and comment count will be available.
- Premium version
- Full set of features including sort/filter/search
- Once off price of $35
- …full feature list available soon.
A Demo of the plugin in action can now be seen over at http://wpsmartsort.dyasonhat.com/
Remaining Development
- User customization of forms
- Search form
- Plugin API functions for advanced implementation.
Hi all,
A Lot of people have been asking if there really is going to be a smart sort V2 the short answer is, YES!
I’m current putting in close to 16 hours a day on the new version of the plugin and it’s coming along nicely. I thought I’d release a few screen shots to show some of what we’re doing.
Once complete the plugin will feature 3 functions:
- Sorting posts on Category, Tag, Archive and Search pages
- Filtering posts based on user criteria on the above pages
- Allow for creation of advanced search form
Why all 3? Why not just sort. The reason is that in order for the sort to work how I wanted I have to create an index table for WordPress and this means more possibilities that I really want to make the most of. I’ve considered releasing separate plugins for this, but since it seems I’m not going to release this as open source ;-( but rather for a small fee I figure the complete package will be quite a draw card for many WP developers.
Smart Sort Top level Menu (WP 2.7b3)
Sort Drop down Menu options
Smart Sort Index Table Setup
User Drop Down Menu to select post sort direction
–Dyasonhat–
FINAL UPDATE: The official page for WP Smart Sort has moved here.
UPDATE: After eagerly anticipating that this script would have been released by now; I’ve come across issues with the extensiveness of the SQL joins the script has been using, in a similar way to smart sort v1. All along I’ve wanted to avoid ‘adding’ or modifying WP in any way but in order for the script to work as I want I’m forced to utilize an “index” table with fields created during script setup in order for this script to have the type of functionality its meant to.
Final version should be released in December. Thanks to those who have left words of encouragement, smart sort v2 is on it way yet!
Thought I’d wet a few people apetites and annouce that I have an ALL new version of smart sort on its way. ETA should be in around a month but might release beta versions before then for testing and comments.
Some of the new features include:
- Display a drop down menu on category & search pages similar to the ’sort by’ box that is used on YouTube.
- Additional drop down list allowing the user the option of choosing how many posts per page they want to view.
- Utilize WP’s built in sort by hooks. The reason for this is to make it as compatable with other plugins as possible.
- Option to sort by any detected fields in the wp_posts table. (this allows for a modified posts table)
- Option to sort by any custom fields.
- Cacheable friendly
I’d like to keep the plugin free but its costing quite a bit this time to get it right so I might need to make it “donationware” but I’ll see closer to the time.
– Dyasonhat —
