Reply To: List Widget – order by custom field?

@ Cole

Well, the only way to do that would be to change the PHP which sets the default sort order in the widget to be sort on the order meta key/value. You would have to open the class.widget-list.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections-widgets/includes/

Look for this line:
'order_by' => $instance['randomize'] ? 'id|RANDOM' : array( 'sort_column', 'last_name', 'first_name' ),

Change it to this:
'order_by' => $instance['randomize'] ? 'id|RANDOM' : 'meta_key:order|NUMERIC_ASC',

Save and overwrite the original file.

For increased permanence the widgets are cached so you will not see the change take effect until after the fragment caches expires. You can force it to expire by making a settings change on the Widgets admin page.

Hope that helps! Let me know.