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Reorder Terms

A simple and easy way to reorder your terms in WordPress.

By Ronald Huereca·Reorder·Free
5(1 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks ago
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As of April 2026, Reorder Terms is a WordPress reorder plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 10% this week. Top alternative: Rearrange Products for WooCommerce.

5/51 reviews
1.0K+active installs
14K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015

Overview

We consider Reorder Terms 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.

Reorder Terms takes a different approach to term reordering. Instead of modifying core tables to achieve reordering, we do it using term meta per post type.

With the ability to add taxonomies to multiple post types, this method allows you to reorder terms within each post type attached to the same taxonomy.

This plugin treats terms like pages. Each term in a hierarchy has a term order. This allows quick reordering and deep traversing to get the exact terms and order you prefer.

As a result, you can get reordered terms with a query such as:

$query = array(
    'orderby'…
Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Excellent, just works, no fluff
by dabnpits·9 years ago

Fantastic plugin. Doesn’t shove any premium version upgrade nags down your throat.

Download Trends

Today: 10Yesterday: 12This week: 53Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress6.5+ requiredTested up to 7.0
PHPfalse+ required
Dependenciesmetronet-reorder-posts

Version Adoption

v1.1
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.1.1

  • Released 2019-02-16
  • Added term helper query in the back-end
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Ronald HuerecaRonald Huereca
Plugin Info
Version
1.1.1
Last Updated
Mar 10, 2026
WP Requires
6.5+
Tested Up To
7.0
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
14K+
Added
Oct 4, 2015
Business
Free

Tags

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Developer

R
Ronald Huereca
12 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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