A lot of clients have asked us how can they rearrange the order of their standard posts and their custom post types in WordPress, therefore, we decided to share the solution with you too.

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For those of you that might not know and wondering what custom post types are, they are mainly used for creating things like FAQ, Services, Portfolio, Staff, and so on.

Since WordPress doesn’t allow you to reorder your posts and custom post types by default, I’ll show you a simple and free plugin that can do that.

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Reorder WordPress posts using the Post Type Order plugin

Post Types Order Plugin

After installing the plugin, go to Settings -> Post Order Types, and go through those few settings and set them based on your preferences.

Post Order Type Plugin Settings

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Now you can go and rearrange the order of your WordPress posts.

Just hold down left-click and then drag & drop as you wish, as shown in the below example:

How to reorder custom post types in WordPress

That’s it! Now your WordPress posts will be reordered.

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That’s a wrap

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