Custom post order for posts, pages, WooCommerce products and custom post types using drag and drop. Simple and intuitive sorting of your content!
As of April 2026, Real Custom Post Order: Create a custom order for your content is a WordPress custom page order plugin with 9.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 40 reviews. It has been downloaded 325K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 14% this week.
Create a custom order of your content by dragging and dropping for the following content types:
Simple and intuitive sorting for your content!
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Many WordPress sites grow over time and with it the number of posts, pages, products, etc. It can be difficult to find the right content that is related to each other if you use the default order by publication date from WordPress. A custom order of posts – whether it’s a post order, a custom page order, a custom product order, or a custom post type order – can help you organize your content in a more intu…
Doing what it promissed. Very handy tool to sort the posts by yourself.
thank you for good work
The other two add-ons I know about that do this need you to access a new backend page to do your organizing, this one is much more clever as it gives that ability directly in the direct page/interface for your posts.
HOWEVER this one has a major draw back as it does NOT work with WPML. Contacted them several times, they seem not to care so am back to using Nested Pages.
If you use Elementor Pro and a combination of complex filtering plugins this is the only plugin that actually works out of the box. It also has a very intuitive drag and drop system that prevents accidental reorders.
We wonder why WP doesn’t do it natively. A must-have for sites with more than 5 or 6 pages! Bravo !
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4.0+ required |
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