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

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.

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