Categories in Hierarchical Order
Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin maintains the hierarchical order of categories list in the Category tab under your WordPress Admin Post Editor …
5(14 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Categories in Hierarchical Order is a WordPress order plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 30K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 14% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce.
5/514 reviews
2.0K+active installs
30K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Gutenberg Editor already maintains the parent-child relationship when you select a category. So the child doesn’t move at the top in the category meta box. So this plugin isn’t required if you’re using the Gutenberg Editor.
Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin applies to WordPress Classic Post Editor only.
This plugin contains functionality to let you maintain default hierarchical order of categories when you select and save them for a post in your WordPress Admin Classic Post Editor.
The selected category/categories, to which a post belongs, are by default pushed at the top in the Category tab while saving the post. Whereas activating Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin will keep the position of selected category/categories unchanged as per their parent/child rel…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Ótimo Plugin, Parabéns!
by fabricio121·3 years ago
Faz 1 ano que esse plugin não recebeu uma atualização, e o plugin pode ficar vulnerável.
Não abandone este plugin , pois ele é ótimo e ajuda em muito. obrogado por ele!
Should be standard in WordPress. Easy and works great!
by studioram·6 years ago
Excactly waht I needed! Unfortuanally WordPress still order categeries alphabatical. This plugin orders them hierarchical. Easy in use!
Perfect
by Joshaw·6 years ago
Does the trick perfectly, thanks! 🙂
Indispensable for Hierarchical Categories
by sharonvillines·7 years ago
Don’t understand why this plug-in doesn’t have more reviews. It’s one of the first I install. I have sites with a subject category and then a subject-date category. this allows me to keep the dates with the categories without naming them with both the category and the date. Otherwise, I would see 1978 chosen but not be able to check that I had chosen photos>1978 or notes>1978. Repeating the category name with every date would add twice the number of terms in far too many places.
Brilliant!
by Andrew Schultz·7 years ago
Why is this not part of the WordPress core yet? This plugin fixed my ugly looking category structure! Thanks guys!
Download Trends
Today: 13Yesterday: 14This week: 90Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.3
93.3%
Other
6.7%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.1
- Security improvement by blocking direct file access
Contributors
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