Featured ordering isn't working in my case. I've set all items to Featured, and set the menu item to Order by Featured. I've confirmed in the database that the featured_ordering column in #__k2_items contains the proper values. However, the front end display does not match. I've posted to imgur a screenshot of a direct db query listing items by featured_ordering and a screenshot of the live display.

imgur.com/a/M6QVg

Ensure that you are editing the correct settings in the correct place. In order to have featured sorting enabled you need to show only featured items in the specific page and set "Item Ordering" to "Ordering".

Ive been trying to get this to work and haven’t been able to get anything to happen. With all articles set to Featured, I’ve:

1) Menu: Under Menus > Sailboats > Blog Layout I changed ‘Featured Articles’ from Use Global to Only

2) K2 Category: Under K2 Categories > Brokerage Boats > Category Item layout > Other Layout Options I changed ‘Item Ordering’ from Default to Ordering

3) K2 Category: Under K2 Categories > Brokerage Boats > Category View Options > Sub-category Handling I changed Default to Ordering

Nothing happens.

Please do not double post.
You are only slowing the process down and you will not receive an answer sooner.

Based on the original post above about Pets/Dogs/Cats, I've set K2 > Categories:

• Set Pets, Dogs and Cats as follows:
Category Item layout: Other Layout Options: to Featured First
Category View Options: Sub-category handling: to Ordering

• Set all child categories under Dogs and Cats as follows:
Category Item layout: Other Layout Options: to Featured First
Category View Options: Sub-category handling: to Ordering

What I see now is:

1) All the DOGS appear in order (largest to smallest) but then are followed by all the CATS in order (largest to smallest). What I need to have are all DOGS and CATS mixed together and displayed in order, by size, descending largest to smallest.

2) If I leave the K2 admin ITEMS interface, view one of the items, and then exit (cancel) and go back to K2 Items, for some reason the order of ALL my Items (Dogs and Cats) changes. I've been ordering them in Featured state.

K2 Items view and Categories view in the backend, where Ordering exists, throws a jquery error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined

Looking at the database while I change ordering, I'm seeing a lot of craziness. Essentially, when the ordering is changed, the featured_ordering column values are just randomly scrambled, so that the result bears absolutely no relationship to the intent.

Perhaps what we're dealing with here is an AJAX error? On the site, the ordering in the native Joomla Articles Manager throws no errors.

Can you check the network tab for the request?

Everything comes through as Status 200. What else would I be checking for?

"/administrator/index.php?option=com_k2&view=items&task=savefeaturedorder&format=raw" request is also Status 200.

And, I've established, the jquery errors are triggered specifically when I click the ordering arrows to enable the ordering.

Is there an update to this topic thread?