Topher

<p>Provides a user interface under the Reading Settings page for choosing what post element to orderby. Also allows the site owner to chose ASCending or DESCending.</p>
<p>NOTE: Does not allow for arbitrary ordering via drag and drop. This is a simple setting.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Once it’s installed, go to Settings -> Reading section, scroll to the bottom, and choose an orderby and order option.</p>


Default Post Sort

I'm glad I came across this plugin. It does exactly what the title says and nothing more which is what I want in a plugin. 

Simple and straightforward. Great plugin.

Provides a user interface for setting a default post order.

Hiren Patel

Ripal Patel

<p>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.</p>
<ol>
<li>Quick and easy drag and drop for rearranging of posts.</li>
<li>Set the number of posts to display in front-end.</li>
<li>User can add different list of sections of particular posts.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Place this shortcode in page, post or text widget where you’d like to display posts.</p>
<pre><code>[posts_order posts=2 section=porder_name]
</code></pre>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
<p>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:</p>
<pre><code>[posts_order posts=3 section=Section1]
</code></pre>
<p>By default it displays 5 posts.</p>
<h4>Templates</h4>
<p>Place this shortcode in any template parts of your theme.</p>
<pre><code><?php echo do_shortcode('[posts_order posts=3 section="Section1"]'); ?>
</code></pre>


Custom Posts Order

A plugin which allows you to order the posts with simple Drag and Drop Sortable capability.

Default Post Sort vs Custom Posts Order