Possible to change the ordering of posts?

Hi,

That should be possible. I’m thinking about a solution.

I think I found a solution, you can test it with WPAM 2.3. Please note, that the new sorting works only for new messages because the old ones have no sort date.

Outstanding. I just found out about the new update and will update this weekend and report back if I find any issues.

Can you please add a PayPal donate link in your plugin description for us who would like to provide support for the continued development of this very useful plugin?

@winkm89 We carried out the upgrade and everything went smoothly.

However, there is one problem. When loading up the post listing page (/admin.php?page=wp-admin-microblog/wp-admin-microblog.php), the posts are still not ordered by latest activity…? We tried to add new posts, and added reply to them, but the post with newest reply has still not bounced to the top?

Is there a setting we have missed to configure?

EDIT: I can confirm that I tried this on a fresh install of WP as well and same issue.

The sort order is editable for every user in the screen options: https://mtrv.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/wp-admin-microblog-2-3/

Ah, my apologies, I found this just for about a minute ago. Is there any way to set the default values for number of messages per page and to set “Show messages with latest comments first” as default for all users?

I tried to change the values on line:

// Load data
    $tags_per_page = 50;
    $messages_per_page = 10;
    $sort_order = 'date';

to

// Load data
    $tags_per_page = 50;
    $messages_per_page = 15;
    $sort_order = 'date_last_comment';

While that did update the screen options, the changes are not applied unless if the user saves their screen options. Is there a way I can make these settings as default instead?

I think this behavior is easy to explain. The default settings you changed, are a fallback for the case, that the user options are not exists. This options will be added if the user click in the screen options on the apply button. If you have already changed your options, the default value will be ignored.

A second point: This code block exists two times: in the functions wpam_show_screen_options() and wpam_page().

However, I want to bring back an option for the editing of this default settings. ??

That explains it perfectly, thank you very much!

I have done the following as a temporal fix to this. I have changed the values in wpam_show_screen_options() and wpam_page(), and also commented out the function wpam_screen_options() so no user can update their settings ??

I do have one question and also one request if you don’t mind.

My question is, how can I disable the “Auto reload interval”? Set the value to 0?

My request is: I noticed that if someone replies to an old post, that post gets to the top (which is perfect), but if that reply is deleted, the post stays at the top. The problem with this is that a user can easily spam the posts, and when the reply entries are deleted, the post ordering will stay incorrect. Did I explain this correctly?

You can “disable” the auto reload with a very high number like 43200000 (= 12 hours). A real disable option will be coming.

Yep, you’re right, deleted posts are problem for the sorting. I’m searching for a solution.

Please keep us updated if you find a solution to this issue.

And thank you dearly for the stellar support!

I’ve updated the plugin with a patch, which should be fix the problem with deleted post and wrong sort order.

In addition you can now disable the auto check for new messages and it’s easier to overwrite some default settings. So, you just have to define the parameters WPAM_DEFAULT_TAGS, WPAM_DEFAULT_NUMBER_MESSAGES or WPAM_DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER in your wp-config.php and your settings will be retain after a plugin update.

That was quick! Before I carry on with this upgrade, can you kindly demonstrate how I can set the parameters for WPAM_DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER in wp-config.php?

I just want to make sure I have all my grounds covered before I upgrade!

For WPAM_DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER:
define('WPAM_DEFAULT_SORT_ORDER', 'date_last_comment');

Thank you for that confirmation. We managed to perform the upgrade smoothly, however, there appears to be a bug, do the following to recreate it:

1. Create a new post and make two replies to it using the same account.

2. Then delete one of the replies, the page will of course refresh and it will appear that the reply is deleted because it is not showing up. But please refresh the page again and you will see that the reply is still there.

Currently, there is no way to properly delete replies.

I tested this in our production site (which uses a heavy configured version of this plugin) and also on a fresh install of WP, same issue.