Hierarchy Post Type Post Table Custom Sort

I don’t see any easy way to cleanly do that. The problem is the protected property $hierarchical_display is set for any hierarchical post type and it essentially forces children to be listed under their parent. There does not seem to be any way to access this property and change it in the normal post list table display process.

In order to access it, you’d need to create your own custom post list table class by extending the default one. Then make your own admin page to display it. You could then remove the default admin menu page to avoid confusion. When you have your own class and admin page, you can display things in any manner you desire, but it’s a large departure from the default process.

yikes, i figured that. Funny enough, when i use the “post_clauses” filter, sortable columns when clicked, ends up sorting it the way i want it. No such luck on the default order though.

Yeah, when you do that, a different URL is requested with &order=asc added on. This causes the the whole $hierarchical_display bit to not be used. A quick hacky fix would be to alter the global $menu array, adding &orderby=date&order=desc to the default CPT URLs. You can do this in a callback hooked to the “admin_menu” action.

The entire extended class replacement process would be the “formal, proper” approach, but is clearly ridiculous. In certain cases there’s little downside to a hacky approach. The only downside I can imagine in directly altering $menu is if the structure should be altered in core, your hack could become broken. Oh, the humanity! ??

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A quick hacky fix would be to alter the global $menu array, adding &orderby=date&order=desc to the default CPT URLs.

Thanks for that my brother, this is awesome. I don’t think i’ll need the hook. The custom post type is accessed as a submenu through the plugin’s dedicated menu. So i’ll alter the submenu slug from the normal edit.php?post_type=competitions and append orderby & order query.

Thanks again. This is why I love being a developer. People always willing to help.

You’re welcome! The extra help is really great when it results in collaborative ideas for unusual approaches that we may not have thought of in isolation.