Integrate with WP API

[pinkasey]

It would be very useful to have support for post order when getting posts with the WP API

Some technical details I've found along the way that I hope can help implement this issue:

I've found this code in WP API's class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php, line 1636: if ( 'page' === $this->post_type || post_type_supports( $this->post_type, 'page-attributes' ) ) { $params['orderby']['enum'][] = 'menu_order'; }

I'm not sure, but I think it means if all post-types support 'page-attributes', then menu_order would be supported by orderby.

So i think calline add_post_type_support() somewhere, on all post type (all?), would do the trick.

[axelson]

As a work-around for this I am doing:

add_filter( "rest_<custom_post_type>_query", function( $args, $request )
{
  $args['orderby'] = 'menu_order';
  return $args;
}, 10, 2 );

So if you're filtering pages you should be able to use rest_page_query

Reference: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/225718/63153