sandywp / plugins / taxonomy-terms-order
Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order
Drag-and-drop ordering for Categories & any taxonomy (hierarchically) using a Drag and Drop Sortable JavaScript capability.
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v2.0 500,000+ installs WP 2.8+
What you get inside
2 screens-
Category Order Interface.
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Multiple Taxonomies Interface.
About this plugin
Easily control the order of Categories and any hierarchical taxonomy with a simple drag-and-drop interface. Reorder parent and child terms visually in the admin and choose whether the plugin automatically applies your custom term order to front-end queries.
Key features
- Intuitive drag-and-drop reordering for Categories and all hierarchical taxonomies.
- Option to auto-apply the custom term order to front-end queries (no theme/plugin edits required).
- Keep the admin term lists in your new order (makes management and editorial workflows consistent).
- Works with multiple taxonomies per post type — switch between taxonomies from the same interface.
- Multisite aware and regularly updated for modern WordPress and PHP versions (see changelog for compatibility notes).
How it works
After activating the plugin, a new Taxonomy Order page becomes available under the custom post type menu. Simply open it and drag terms into the exact order you want — including parent/child hierarchy.
Use the plugin’s Taxonomy Order screen to drag terms into the order you want. To apply the custom order automatically across your site, enable the Autosort option — the plugin will adjust term queries on the fly so your chosen order shows without template changes. If you prefer to control ordering in code, include orderby => ‘term_order’ when calling get_terms() to use the plugin’s order programmatically.
This plugin is developed by Nsp-Code
See the Advanced Taxonomy Terms Order for advanced features.
Localization
Available in Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, Dutch (Belgium), English (Australia), English (Canada), English (New Zealand), English (UK), English (US), French (France), Galician, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish (Chile), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Venezuela), Swedish, and Turkish.
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Questions
- Since I have no PHP knowledge at all, is this plugin for me?
Absolutely, you can!
Unlike many other plugins, you don’t have to do any code changes to make your post order to apply, accordingly to custom-defined order. There is an option to auto-update the WordPress queries so the posts will be returned in customised order. This can be turned off (Autosort) to allow customized code usage.- I prefer to apply the sort through code, how can be done?
Include a ‘orderby’ => ‘term_order’ within your get_terms() arguments.
- What taxonomies will allow me to sort?
You can sort ALL taxonomies ( hierarhically active ), including the default Categories.
- Is there any way i can get my admin interface to use the custom terms order?
Absolutely, the plugin can do that. In fact you can configure so only the admin will update and the front side template will display the terms as before.
- There is a feature that i want it implemented, can you do something about it?
All ideas are welcome and i put them on my list to be implemented into the new versions. Anyway this may take time, but if you are in a rush, please consider a small donation and we can arrange something.
- I still need more features
Consider upgrading to our advanced version of this plugin at a very resonable price Advanced Taxonomy Terms Order Order
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