Manual sorting in tx_news Typo3 - php

I use the Tx_news Extension (not TT_news) and have 2 pages where i show my newsitems. On Home I show only some topnews with the Listview, and there is a second page with the full News overview, the last one is ordered by Date & Time field.
But for the items on the Home I want a Manual sorting if it's possible.
I have added the following code in my resources:
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['news']['orderByNews'] .= ",sorting";
This gives in the plugin the option for Manual Sorting, so that part works. Only How and Where can I order the News Items?
Note: I see in the Newsrecord table (tx_news_domain_model_news) the column sorting, my records are all 0 in there, I think its something with this, but can't get my finger on it.
I hope somebody can help me.

You need to set the news-plugin settings in ts-setup.
plugin.tx_news {
settings {
orderBy = sorting
orderDirection = desc
orderByAllowed = sorting,author,uid,title,teaser,author,tstamp,crdate,datetime,categories.title
}
}

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