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Admin sort order not applied on the frontend

Drag-and-drop order set in the admin does not show on the public site for posts, pages, or custom post types.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 13 September 2016 · last reported 25 February 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners using WP Sort Order report that reordering posts, pages, custom post types, or taxonomy terms in the admin screen has no effect on the public site.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.