Ordering members

You do not need to delete and add in the posts to re-order… They are ordered by date, but you can easily change the post date of each post to set the order by doing a Quick Edit (hover over the post title in the dashboard) of the post and changing the date. Or within in post by clicking the Edit link on the Published On date.

Members will be order by the most current to the oldest.

Thanks, I found that one out shortly after my post and have suggested to them to do this until I can find a plugin that makes re-ordering a little easier.

At the moment the plugin seems perfect for what they need but if we could have a way to either:

1. choose the order on the shortcode i.e.

[mtphr_members_archive posts_per_page=”6″ columns=”4″ order=”1,4,2,3,5,6″ excerpt_length=”200″ excerpt_more=”{View info}” assets=”thumbnail,name,excerpt”]

2. change an order number in an extra column in the members list.

3. or allow a way to display the members in groups/categories on the same page, with maybe multiple shortcodes on the page i.e.

[mtphr_members_archive posts_per_page=”6″ columns=”4″ category=”captains” excerpt_length=”200″ excerpt_more=”{View info}” assets=”thumbnail,name,excerpt”]

[mtphr_members_archive posts_per_page=”6″ columns=”4″ category=”flyers” excerpt_length=”200″ excerpt_more=”{View info}” assets=”thumbnail,name,excerpt”]

[mtphr_members_archive posts_per_page=”6″ columns=”4″ category=”bases” excerpt_length=”200″ excerpt_more=”{View info}” assets=”thumbnail,name,excerpt”]

… that would be awesome.

Thanks

You can currently display an archive by category.. basically the same way you described, but you need to you “categories” instead of “category”. You can input multiple categories separated by commas if you need to as well.

I’ll look into adding an order an orderby parameter for the shortcodes.

Thanks for confirming the categories one. I’ll try it out tomorrow. If it works I think that’ll keep them happy and will allow them to keep a sensible order to the team members with captains always at the top etc.