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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