Post ordering functionality added

djangocms_blog/admin.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
 
 from copy import deepcopy
 
+from adminsortable.admin import SortableAdmin
 from aldryn_apphooks_config.admin import BaseAppHookConfig, ModelAppHookConfig
 from cms.admin.placeholderadmin import FrontendEditableAdminMixin, PlaceholderAdminMixin
 from cms.models import CMSPlugin, ValidationError
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ class BlogCategoryAdmin(EnhancedModelAdminMixin, ModelAppHookConfig, Translatabl
 
 
 class PostAdmin(PlaceholderAdminMixin, FrontendEditableAdminMixin,
-                ModelAppHookConfig, TranslatableAdmin):
+                ModelAppHookConfig, TranslatableAdmin, SortableAdmin):
     form = PostAdminForm
     list_display = [
         'title', 'author', 'date_published', 'app_config', 'all_languages_column',

djangocms_blog/migrations/0030_auto_20170411_1456.py

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.10.5 on 2017-04-11 09:26
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('djangocms_blog', '0029_post_related'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
+            name='post',
+            options={'get_latest_by': 'date_published', 'ordering': ('post_order', '-date_published', '-date_created'), 'verbose_name': 'blog article', 'verbose_name_plural': 'blog articles'},
+        ),
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='post',
+            name='post_order',
+            field=models.PositiveIntegerField(db_index=True, default=0, editable=False),
+        ),
+    ]

djangocms_blog/models.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals
 
 import hashlib
 
+from adminsortable.models import SortableMixin
 from aldryn_apphooks_config.fields import AppHookConfigField
 from aldryn_apphooks_config.managers.parler import AppHookConfigTranslatableManager
 from cms.models import CMSPlugin, PlaceholderField
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ class BlogCategory(TranslatableModel):
 
 
 @python_2_unicode_compatible
-class Post(KnockerModel, ModelMeta, TranslatableModel):
+class Post(SortableMixin, KnockerModel, ModelMeta, TranslatableModel):
     """
     Blog post
     """
@@ -195,6 +196,7 @@ class Post(KnockerModel, ModelMeta, TranslatableModel):
                                      verbose_name=_('Related Posts'),
                                      blank=True,
                                      symmetrical=False)
+    post_order = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0, editable=False, db_index=True)
 
     _metadata = {
         'title': 'get_title',
@@ -227,7 +229,7 @@ class Post(KnockerModel, ModelMeta, TranslatableModel):
     class Meta:
         verbose_name = _('blog article')
         verbose_name_plural = _('blog articles')
-        ordering = ('-date_published', '-date_created')
+        ordering = ('post_order', '-date_published', '-date_created')
         get_latest_by = 'date_published'
 
     def __str__(self):

setup.py

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ setup(
         'django-meta-mixin>=0.3',
         'aldryn-apphooks-config>=0.2.6',
         'djangocms-apphook-setup',
+        'django-admin-sortable',
     ],
     extras_require={
         'search': ['aldryn-search'],