Add a custom meta box for client to order CPT posts how they want

Question

Im looking for a way to add a custom meta box to a custom post type that will allow the user/client order the posts to show up how they want on the site. Is this possible? Basically using a very similar functionality to "page attributes"...

Answer 1

You can add page-attributes support to the post type. This will cause a meta box to appear with an "order" field to do just what you want.

eg.

   <?php
   add_post_type_support('your_custom_post_type', 'page-attributes');

Or you add page-attributesto the supports argument in register_post_type.

Answer 2

Why not have the custom post type be hierarchical and support the page-attributes box?