Sort Taxonomy Terms per Post basis using a Drag and Drop Sortable JavaScript capability.
As of April 2026, Post Terms Order is a WordPress terms order plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 8% this week. Top alternative: Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order.
This plugin allows Taxonomy Terms sort per Post based using a Drag and Drop Sortable JavaScript capability. It include a clean interface which makes the plugin easy and intuitive to use.
Nothing complicated, eveyrone should be able to use this code:
* Install the plugin through the Install Plugins interface or by uploading the post-terms-order folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
* Activate the Post Terms Order plugin.
* A new menu item page will be created within Settings > Post Terms Order, this is the place where sorts can be created.
The plugin is limited to 20 objects. For unlimited usage check the Advanced Post Terms Order
There is an advanced version of the plugin with improved functionality and more features. For more details check th…
It did not work at all. What a time waste!
no way to work
It gave me big help to construct my website easily !!!
when you try to reorder the post, its showing ALL the posts from ALL categories which is not very helpfull for very large sites. In my situation cant say that it helped because posts have similar titles and without knowing which post is on which categories its somewhat… hard to know your way around…
Sorting posts went OK with Post TYPES Order. However, when it came to taxonomies, nothing was available to sort. Post Terms Order and Taxonomy Terms Order failed to work. Disappointed to say the least.
| WordPress | 3.2+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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