Pods custom order front end

Hi all,

Hope you can help. Although I use a plugin “simple page ordering” (tried nested too). and checked the box for page attributes support, the ordering of my custom post types does work in the admin area but is not reflexed on the front-end. Hopefully you are able to help.

My custom post type has 3 categories. I want to sort the posts within each category in a custom order which can be changed manually. (not A-Z or by date created)

wordpress: 6.2.2
php 8.1