Dyason Hat

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 —

FINAL UPDATE: The official page for WP Smart Sort has moved here.

This plugin allows you to place a sort bar, with options to sort the list of posts by any custom field. You can place the sort bar above or below a list of posts in a category or archive or anywhere in your template.

Simple place <?php placesort() ?> anywhere in your template.

Options are set in the admin panel as to which custom fields to display in the sort bar.

This was originally coded by smartalien on scriptlance. He no longer develops it and I purchased the code from him. It works but I put it out there to be used and improved by the wordpress community.

There may be bugs; if you can’t fix them point them out, if you can send us the code fix.

This project is hosted with Google Code here

Latest Version 1.0:

Enjoy it.

To Do list:

• More pretty permalink URL
• CSS/HTML output options to customize display of sort bar
• Fix compatability with other plugins
• Display on main index page (currently only seems to be displaying on category and archive pages
• Tagging support

Version History:

1.0

• First Release
• A bit “buggey” but it works
• Waiting feedback on requests, issues and ideas
• Planned rapid deployment of 1.1 to tackle known bugs