torsteino

Posts are usually listed in reverse chronological order as they are often used for posting regular time-orientated content.
PostMash Custom lets you customise the order your posts are listed in using a simple Ajax drag-and-drop administrative interface, both regular posts and custom post types, with filtering for both standard taxonomy and custom taxonomies. Plus it gives quick access to toggle posts between draft and published states. Particularly useful if you’re using WordPress as a CMS.
<a href="http://opperud.com/postmash_custom/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin home page</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
This version: Torstein Opperud, http:/opperud.com
The original postMash plugin and author: http://joelstarnes.co.uk/postMash/, 
postMash (filtered): http://postmashfiltered.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/post-mash-filtered/
<h3>Localization</h3>
Currently only available in english.

PostMash Custom – custom post order

Customize display order of posts by a simple drag-and-drop Ajax interface, now with support for custom post types and custom taxonomies.

hijiri

Intuitively reorder Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Sites with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Intuitive Custom Post Order lets you reorder items with simple drag and drop in the WordPress admin. 
You can sort Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and (on Multisite) Sites.
Go to Settings → Intuitive CPO and select which content types you want to make sortable. 
Once enabled, just drag and drop items in the list tables—no extra setup is required.
If you create custom queries in your theme or plugins, set <code>orderby=menu_order</code> and <code>order=ASC</code> to respect the drag-and-drop order. 
To keep the default WordPress order (by date), explicitly set <code>orderby=date</code> and <code>order=DESC</code>.
Source code and development are available on <a href="https://github.com/hijiriworld/intuitive-custom-post-order" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.

Intuitive Custom Post Order

Awesome plugin

It often leaves multiple posts with the same order value, which means that they might not be sorted the way you want on the front end (or after refreshing the admin).

Critical bug

Each time you update the order when you have thousands of posts it will literally destroy your disks IOPS. If you wondered why your AWS RDS was running out of IOPS, this plugin is the reason it is happening, it will update each and every posts menu_order meta, which if you have 15k posts is 15k queries to the DB.

Having a news site and 2-3 authors posting new stories every 30min to an hour will equal 45 000 queries to your db, rapidly eating your IOPS and your site will fall over. if you are using a hosting provider and they keep pestering you to update and charge you more, this is the reason why. 

If you have a small site with few posts, this is fine. If you have a huge site, do not use this plugin or if you plan on having a huge site do not use this plugin until they fix the indexing.

Great for 100 Posts bad for 150000

Awesome Plugin


Support is not answering a security vulnerability report for more than 2 months, this is unacceptable and has a HIGH security risk.


Security vulnerability reported 2 months ago unattended

Intuitively reorder Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Sites with a simple drag-and-drop interface.

PostMash Custom – custom post order vs Intuitive Custom Post Order