I'd like to employ a sort order option in my theme to allow categories to be sorted similar to pages. Can anyone recommend a plugin that does this?
I needed this requirement a while back. There's a selection of plugins available, but nothing took my fancy. They were (in my opinion) either too bloated, poorly written, or the UI was either lacking or overly complex.
Then I stumbled upon Term Menu Order. Essentially it adds a menu_order field to the terms database, and you use it the same way as the menu order for pages. Very simple, does the job!
NB: I actually took the concept and rewrote in what I considered an improvement.
- It's oh-so-slightly less heavy on memory
- Adds a simple
orderby=term_orderargument available for term function - Can control which taxonomies support ordering, either through the
register_taxonomy()call or with WordPress hooks - Fixes one particular flaw - same terms in different taxonomies will share the same order, my plugin fixed this
If this takes your fancy I can share :)
My spin on the Term Order Plugin (MediaFire)
The MediaFire upload has had it's day, apologies. Will get a replacement set-up, perhaps on GitHub, soon...
answered Mar 16 '11 at 23:33
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@TheDeadMedic: Its working great for items where i can add the &orderby=term_order filter to. However, I can't get the default WP categories widget to obey the order. Should I have to do anything special to make it work there too? – Scott B Apr 11 '11 at 16:02
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Hi @Scott B @TheDeadMedic @jameslafferty This is what I'm looking for exactly! Would it be possible to repost the code please? The MediaFire link is broken... Many thanks! – Flo Jun 13 '11 at 15:13
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@Flo You still need it? Errm, rather embarrassing, but I lost it! If @Scott B still has it, could you help us out? Otherwise I plan on writing a super-awesome fork with drag & drop! Watch this space... – TheDeadMedic Jun 25 '11 at 14:18
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You lost it? What a shame. :( @Scott B: do you still have the code? Please, share. Thanks! – Geert Nov 20 '11 at 17:14
Bill Erickson and I recently updated the Term Menu Order plugin (which had fallen into disrepair). I actually came back here to see if TheDeadMedic's solution was still available to use in improving the plugin some more... sorry to see that it's not up.
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Thank you for your update! I'm going to grab it and work with it today. – Jonathan Wold Dec 5 '11 at 22:13
I have just released a plugin that attempts to tackle this issue: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-taxonomy-sort/. All you do it add the order for the individual terms, much like with pages, and the sorting is magically done for you.
