A simple and easy way to reorder your terms in WordPress.
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.
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(
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| WordPress | 6.5+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
| Dependencies | metronet-reorder-posts |
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