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• The Selected Items module’s interface

Often on a website you want to control the order that entries display. For example, on a magazine-style website, the front page stories would be editorially selected rather than just the 5 most recent.

The Selected Items add-on allows the user to select weblog entries using a simple AJAx-powered search form. Selections can be made up from different weblogs, so, for example, news articles in one weblog can be mixed up with reviews from another.

Features

• You select the order that you want the entries to display
• Entries can be from multiple weblogs
• Entries can appear in multiple selections
• Easy to use form to choose entries

Sorting without the Selected Items add-on

The usual method to achieve arbitrary sort orders in ExpressionEngine is add a custom field to a weblog and sort using that, but this can have several problems.

• ExpressionEngine does not sort numerically, so you need to remember to ‘pre-pad’ the numbers with zeros. eg, 001, 002, ..., 010, ... 100
• It only works across a single weblog. You cannot easily order across multiple weblogs
• Each entry can only be sorted in one order, eg an entry sorted first on one page cannot be order last on another

The Selected Items add-on avoids these issues.

Related

• Using Selected Items with EE 1.6.5+

Download

Download latest version 1.4