I’m developing for a blog with an edge case where one of the categories needs to order posts by menu_order (descending) instead of date on the category archive page. The front end is fine. For the back end, I enabled ‘page-attributes’ in the ‘supports’ attribute for posts, and the Post Attributes meta box is appearing as expected in the back end.
However, when I change the value of the Order field to a non-zero number, the value resets to 0 when I update the post. I’ve taken the usual troubleshooting steps (changed the theme, deactivated all plugins except the one function turning on this meta box, clearing the cache). I think this is a bug that needs to be reported in Trac, but I want to make sure I’m not missing something. Do I need to enable something else that I’m missing?
We’re on WP 6.5.2 and using Gutenberg.