[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #2702: Easier way to change page order (AJAX/jQuery?)

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#2702: Easier way to change page order (AJAX/jQuery?)
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 Reporter:  FireMotion                  |        Owner:  berpasan   
     Type:  enhancement                 |       Status:  new        
 Priority:  low                         |    Milestone:  2.3 (trunk)
Component:  Administration              |      Version:  2.0        
 Severity:  normal                      |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  ajax js list-manipulation?  |  
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Comment (by froman118):

 I'm the author of My Page Order (as well as My Link Order and My Category
 Order) and the intention of my plugins has always been to provide a quick
 and easy way of setting a manual display order for pages, post categories,
 link categories and links, something not easily done with WP out of the
 box.

 One possible problem I see with adding the ability to order pages on the
 management panel is that none of the list pages are used to modify data
 except for marking records for deletion. Adding drag and drop ordering to
 this list would potentially open up all the list pages to more complexity
 (i.e. adding a category dropdown on each blogroll row ).

 Also need to keep in mind that not everyone displays pages in their themes
 using the page order. For those that list by id, title, slug, creation
 date, modified date or author, will an option be provided to list the
 pages in their desired order like the dropdowns available on the Blogroll
 list?

 If WP developers are ready to push functionality from the edit pages out
 onto the list pages then sure go for it. Through my experience developing
 and supporting my plugins (My Page Order being the least popular) I'm just
 not convinced there's that much demand for this out there. Only a subset
 of users use the page order in their themes and an even smaller number
 have enough pages that need to be reordered frequently where the built in
 functionality becomes cumbersome. Those people that demand more control
 over the order then have plugins like mine to turn to.

 It's a good idea but I'm not sure if the increase in convenience outweighs
 the increase in complexity. Anyone else have thoughts on this, I'm new to
 the WP dev scene so some more experienced voices would be welcome.

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