Admin: displaying sticky posts first

[John W.]

So, I have a page called NEWS with children that use a template named news_article. Currently I have NEWS set to list children, in the admin side, by published. 

Well, I added a checkbox field called pinned_article. If checked, it just pins the article to the top when listing news on the visitor side...fine. 

What I’m trying to do on the admin side is list in the tree all the news articles by pinned_article,published (the equivalent of a selector such as sort=-pinned_article, sort=-published)  

All I see is a drop down for selecting a single field  Would be nice to add a text field to allow selectors for more complex sorting  

Any work-arounds?

 

[Zeka]

 

 

[John W.]

Thanks. I haven’t learned to create hooks, guess now is a good time. ?