Custom order categories in admin dashboard

Question

everyone, is there way to order categories in add/edit post in admin dashboard. The problem is my order must be custom, not by Name or ID. For example:

• Rumors (id 5)

• News (id 1)

• Features (id 7)

• etc.

  The ideal solution will be to order categories by description. That way in category description field I will put number or letter and categories will order right.

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Use the get_terms_args hook and modify the orderby argument, like so:

add_filter( 'get_terms_args', 'my_sort_terms', 10, 2 );
function my_sort_terms( $args, $taxonomies ) {

    $args['orderby'] = 'description';

    return $args;
}

Possible values for this argument are listed in the codex.