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Reorder by Term

A simple and easy way to reorder your custom post types within terms in WordPress.

By Ronald Huereca·Reorder·Free
5(5 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 week ago
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As of April 2026, Reorder by Term is a WordPress reorder plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 24K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 65% this week. Top alternative: Rearrange Products for WooCommerce.

5/55 reviews
1.0K+active installs
24K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

We consider Reorder By Term a developer tool. If you do not know what menu_order or custom queries are, then this plugin is likely not for you. This is an add-on to Reorder Posts and requires Reorder Posts 2.1.0 or greater.

Out of the box, WordPress does not support the ability to reorder posts within a term. There are other plugins out there that do term ordering, but they usually create custom tables (which require crazy custom queries and filters) and/or add a column or two to core tables, which is not sustainable in the long-term should WordPress core decide to update its schema.

Reorder by Term uses custom fields, which means you can reorder by term within each taxonomy AND post type. This is insanely flexible.

Since WordPress doesn’t support this by default, when you instal…

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Ratings & Reviews

55 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Awesome!!
by Gabor Lippert·8 years ago

Oh My God! It works!!! No bugs! I can use it on my client’s production site!!!!!
It’s just like a fairy tale!

Thank you, Guys!!!

Fantastic
by dabnpits·9 years ago

Big thank you to the developers, the plugin works great.

Excellent work
by Natacha·9 years ago

Brilliant plugin.

I had this up and running in 15 minutes.
Note you will need to adjust your WP_Query functions, but it provides you with the code snippets you need � very handy!

For example I use the following to provide a custom post sort order by taxonomy:

$category_name = $post->post_name;
$args = array(
�post_type� => �project�,
�post_status� => �publish�,
�posts_per_page� => -1,
�order� => �ASC�,

//�orderby� => �menu_order�, //old code
//�category_name� => $category_name //old code

//New sort order by term:
�meta_key� => �_reorder_term_category_�.$category_name,
�orderby� => �meta_value_num title�

);
$projects = new WP_Query($args);

A gotcha is to ensure you have �Sort by� set to None for the menu order arguments found within Settings � Reorder Posts, otherwise it will ignore the custom sort order.

Wonderful add-on
by Azarea·9 years ago·1 reply

Easy to install and simple to use, this is a really useful plugin.
It provides the much-needed support for quick & intuitive re-ordering of different post types.

Works great! Quick support.
by eSaner·10 years ago

This plugin, along with the Reorder Posts plugin, are great options for drag and drop ordering in WordPress.

Download Trends

Today: 20Yesterday: 27This week: 234Period total: 4K

Compatibility

WordPress3.7+ requiredTested up to 7.0
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.3
75.4%
v1.2
24.6%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.3.1

  • Released 2026-03-23
  • Fixed order reset issue when saving posts.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Ronald HuerecaRonald Huereca
Plugin Info
Version
1.3.1
Last Updated
Mar 24, 2026
WP Requires
3.7+
Tested Up To
7.0
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
24K+
Added
Jan 28, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

R
Ronald Huereca
12 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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