Reordering posts on Cloud template

We have a cloud template page that displays resources (each resource being a post). There are perhaps 6-12 posts per template page currently displayed by date order (newest first). We want to reorder these posts according to another criteria i.e. other than date – ranking them in a very specific order no1, no.2, No.3 etc. We display the post date so we can’t alter dates to change the order displayed. We want to retain using templates as there are about 80 pages of resources. Is there a way we can display them using another specific ordering system and still keep to using a generic template? Could we use something like the ‘Highest rated (reviews’)’ sort order and then give 5 x 5 star reviews to the No.1 post, 4x 5 star reviews for the No.2 post etc in order that they would display in the order we want (obviously we wouldn’t actually display the reviews we make, just use that as a method of sort order)? Is there a better way to do this – any way of adding an extra sort order field perhaps? Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Thanks Annamarie. So, as the standard tagdiv sort order filters won’t work for what we need, could we use tag slugs to manually order how our reviews to display in a specific order? Any advice?