Sorting Widget

The Filter Everything plugin contains the Sorting Widget that allows you to sort filtered posts or products in fact by any criteria.

Possible criteria are:

• Post ID
• Author
• Post title
• Post slug
• Post date
• Number of comments
• Product price
• Product sales number
• Product rating
• Product reviews number
• Meta key
• Meta key numeric
• Random

In general it supports the list of all post-related criteria and Meta key or Meta key numeric that cover 99% of possible needed sorting parameters.

How to create? #

1. Go to the Appearance
2. Click Widgets
3. Choose the needed widget area and click  to add a new widget
4. Write filter everything in the search box
5. Choose the “Filter Everything — Sorting” widget

Sorting Widget Options #

In the widget settings form you can edit or add new sorting options using the button “+ Add sorting option”. Also, you can change sorting options order by dragging them up and down.

1. Title – defines the title of the widget (optional)
2. Add sorting option – creates a new sorting option
3. Title – the title of the sorting option, will be displayed as an option in the dropdown list
4. Order by – defines the criteria by which posts will be sorted
5. Meta key – defines the meta key of the custom field by which posts will be sorted (only for Meta key and Meta key numeric)
6. Order – defines the sorting order ASC or DESC

In addition you can use Sorting Widget shortocode to insert Sorting dropdown in the place, where regular WordPress widgets are not supported.