This was part of the GSoC project III Enhancement of this year.

I guess the only "challenge" is to implement the featured ordering if I remember correctly, because it's independent from the category the article is in.

Ah - that's the difference. Guess its not as easy as I was thinking.

You must not guess - itis described in the gsoc document :)

;) You have to know it exists and where to find it

When I added the filter for featured to articles, I already wanted to remove the whole model/view/controller for featured. But could not do it at this time. Now we have at least improved the model.
And I like theis feature request, it is exactly what I want too.

OK - I will re-open this so it doesnt get forgotten.

Additional random thoughts: perhaps we should go the other way around and remove the limited ordering on category level at all (not sure if there is a reason why it is there).

Because this limitation brings a bunch of problems in the news modules when one select "order by ordering". It's not always the expected behaviour.

Removing this limitation makes it easier to fulfill this issue...

@Formatio-hippocampi can you please create a new issue/feature request and delete your comment here because has not much todo with this issue

Comment was to support "Featured Articles is just the display of articles pre-filtered does it really need its own view".

Comment was to support "Featured Articles is just the display of articles pre-filtered does it really need its own view".

Oh, now that makes sense, I don't think we remove that view in a reasonable time frame (maybe j5?) except someone finds a good way to to sort featured articles in the main articles view.

Closing