Title: Simple Taxonomy Ordering
Author: Evan Herman
Published: <strong>Kevardhu 14, 2015</strong>
Last modified: Meurth 22, 2023

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
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# Simple Taxonomy Ordering

 By [Evan Herman](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eherman24/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-taxonomy-ordering.2.3.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/#installation)
 * [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-taxonomy-ordering/)

## Description

Order all of the taxonomy terms on your site with a simple to use, intuitive drag
and drop interface. The plugin works for WordPress core taxonomies — Categories 
and Tags — and any custom taxonomies you have created.

Activate the plugin, enable your taxonomy on the settings page, and drag and drop
the taxonomies into the desired position. It couldn’t be easier.

On the front end of the site your taxonomy terms will display in the order set in
the dashboard.

**Requires WordPress 4.4 or later due to the use of the term meta.**
 **Query Usage**

 * If you’re trying to query for taxonomy terms (e.g. using `WP_Query` or functions
   like `get_terms()`), and you’d like them to be returned in the order specified
   by the plugin, you need to add the tax_position parameter in your call. For example:`'
   meta_key' => 'tax_position'` and `'orderby' => 'tax_position'`. Thanks to @certainlyakey
   on GitHub for pointing this out.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Simple Taxonomy Ordering settings page, allows you to specify which taxonomy 
   you want to enable drag & drop ordering on.

## Installation

 * Unzip and upload contents to your plugins directory (usually wp-content/plugins/).
 * Activate the plugin.
 * Head to the settings page, ‘Settings > Simple Tax. Ordering’.
 * Select the taxonomies you want to enable drag and drop ordering on. Save the 
   settings.
 * Head to the taxonomy edit page and re-order the taxonomies as needed.
 * Profit

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Quick and simple reordering without the bloat](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-and-simple-reordering-without-the-bloat/)󠁿

 [247web](https://profiles.wordpress.org/247web/) Metheven 6, 2023

Works even with Parent categories (takes all the children with it).

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### 󠀁[Perfect light weight plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-light-weight-plugin/)󠁿

 [tatof](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tatof/) Du 15, 2021

Saved my day 🙂 easy to use and light weight. thnx

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### 󠀁[Seems to work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seems-to-work-49/)󠁿

 [Pt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bncpeter/) Hwevrer 11, 2021 1 reply

Migrated from Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order by NSP-Code because that plugin
just wasn’t recognising all of my taxonomies. In this one you can (must) explicitly
tell it which taxonomies to activate for.

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### 󠀁[Awesome plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awesome-plugin-5684/)󠁿

 [Artneo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/artneo/) Mis-Genver 28, 2021 1 reply

Simple to use and easy to change categories ordering. Thank you!

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### 󠀁[Works excellent!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-excellent-46/)󠁿

 [mastmast](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mastmast/) Hedra 22, 2020 1 reply

Works excellent for me

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### 󠀁[Excelent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excelent-915/)󠁿

 [mindfrakker](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindfrakker/) Ebrel 7, 2020

Exactly what you would want from a plugin like this

 [ Read all 28 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-taxonomy-ordering/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Taxonomy Ordering” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Evan Herman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eherman24/)
 *   [ karmadharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yikesinc/)
 *   [ Tracy Levesque ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/liljimmi/)
 *   [ yikesitskevin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yikesitskevin/)

“Simple Taxonomy Ordering” has been translated into 5 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “Simple Taxonomy Ordering” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-taxonomy-ordering/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-taxonomy-ordering/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-taxonomy-ordering/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-taxonomy-ordering/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.3.4

 * Fixes custom order not being displayed on edit-tags pages.

#### 2.3.3

 * Housekeeping

#### 2.3.2

 * Fixes column span bug present after updating to WordPress 5.5.

#### 2.3.0

 * Fixes bug with illegal string offset when disabling taxonomies under certain 
   conditions.

#### 2.2.0

 * Added action `yikes_sto_taxonomy_order_updated` to hook into updated Taxonomy
   event. Thanks @d4mation!

#### 2.1.0

 * Singleton Pattern. This approach makes removing the filter, which sets the custom
   order, a lot easier.

#### 2.0.3

 * Fixed uninstall method. The plugin should now uninstall and clean up after itself
   without error.

#### 2.0.2

 * Fixed footer callout URLs and placement. It should only display on the settings
   page now.

#### 2.0.1

 * Fixed an issue with PHP versions < 7 (renaming class method from `include` to`
   include_files`).
 * Fixed an issue where new taxonomies were not being saved.
 * Fixed an issue where the plugin’s action link to the settings page was going 
   to the admin dashboard.
 * Updated the plugin’s pot file with the proper text domain.

#### 2.0.0

 * Completely rewrote the plugin: it is now fully WPCS linted, assets are minified,
   inline styles and javascript have been removed, nonces are included in AJAX requests.
 * Fixed bugs with defaulting a taxonomy’s order.
 * Fixed bug where ordering on a subsequent page would overwrite the first page’s
   order.

#### 1.2.7

 * Added some variable checks to prevent PHP Notices.

#### 1.2.6

 * Changed the global (localized) JS variable from `localized_data` to `simple_taxonomy_ordering_data`
   to avoid any potential conflicts.

#### 1.2.5

 * Fixed an issue where terms weren’t being returned if the termmeta table was empty.
   A big thanks to @doppiogancio on GitHub for finding this and helping us reach
   the solution.

#### 1.2.4

 * Fixed a JS issue that occurs when HTML is added to category description. A big
   thanks to @mateuszbajak for finding this and fixing it!

#### 1.2.3

 * Fixed a bug where the same SQL join statement was being added to a query twice
   on the front end (props to @burisk for calling this out)

#### 1.2.2

 * Added a CAST call to order taxonomies as integers instead of strings (props to
   Timothy Couckuyt / @devplus_timo for calling this out)

#### 1.2.1

 * Removed the `disableSelection()` call to allow selection of quick edit fields

#### 1.2

 * Added i18n: added domain path, languages folder, .pot file, and load_text_domain()
   hook

#### 1.1

 * Reverted query, added missing ORDER BY argument.

#### 1.0

 * Altered the query run when ordering terms (Props to Daniel Schwab for the [pull request](https://github.com/yikesinc/yikes-inc-simple-taxonomy-ordering/pull/2).

#### 0.1

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.3.4**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.4 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.2.9**
 *  Languages
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 * Tags
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   [term](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/term/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-taxonomy-ordering/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Evan Herman ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/eherman24/)
 *   [ karmadharma ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yikesinc/)
 *   [ Tracy Levesque ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/liljimmi/)
 *   [ yikesitskevin ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/yikesitskevin/)

## Support

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