Description
Most commonly taxonomy sorting plugins will create a new interface to drag or order/sort your terms. This plugin uses the built-in view just to make things easier. Just grab the term and drag it to a new position. No more extra clicks – everything is saved after repositioning!
The order is applied to term queries that did not ask for an order of their own. A query that explicitly sorts by count, slug, term order or anything else gets what it asked for, so themes and plugins that sort terms themselves are left alone.
Installation
- Upload
the-taxonomy-sort/folder to the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
- Go to taxonomy page (for example Posts -> Categories) and drag the table rows to change ordering.
FAQ
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Is there a way to disable it for some taxonomies?
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Yes, as of version 2.1. Return the taxonomies it should apply to, and it applies to no others:
add_filter( 'the_taxonomy_sort_define_taxonomies', function () { return array( 'category', 'product_cat' ); } );For a decision per query – one taxonomy sorted in the admin but not on the front end, say – there is
the_taxonomy_sort_is_sortable:add_filter( 'the_taxonomy_sort_is_sortable', function ( $sortable, $taxonomies, $args ) { return is_admin() ? $sortable : false; }, 10, 3 ); -
Does it work with hierarchical taxonomies?
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Yes. Terms are ordered among their siblings; WordPress still nests children under their parent, so dragging a child to the top of the list moves it to the top of its own branch.
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Who is allowed to reorder terms?
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Whoever may manage that taxonomy’s terms – the same capability WordPress checks before showing the taxonomy screen.
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Contributors & Developers
“The Taxonomy Sort” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
2.1
- Fix: term queries that ask for ids, names or slugs came back empty, which emptied tag autocomplete, WooCommerce attribute terms and anything else built on them
- Fix: two terms sharing a position made one of them disappear from every list
- Fix: the sorting no longer costs one database query per term – it is done in SQL, in the query that was going to run anyway
- Fix: dragging on page two of a paginated taxonomy no longer renumbers over page one, which is what made the last terms of a long list look unsortable
- Fix: rows can be dragged past the bottom of the table again
- Fix: uninstalling now removes the order it saved (it was deleting post meta, where nothing was ever stored)
- Security: saving an order now requires a nonce and the capability to manage that taxonomy’s terms; any logged-in user could previously reorder every term on the site
- Feature:
the_taxonomy_sort_define_taxonomiesandthe_taxonomy_sort_is_sortablefilters to limit where the order applies - Queries that ask for a specific order are left alone, so term sorting done by themes and other plugins keeps working
- Tested against PHP 8.4 and WordPress 7.1
2.0
- Using now term meta
1.1
- Fix: Uninstallation hook notice
- Feature: Activity spinner on saving the order
1.0
- Welcoming plugin to WordPress plugins!