Zone Manager (Zoninator)
Content curation made easy! Create "zones" then add and order your content!
5(3 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, Zone Manager (Zoninator) is a WordPress order plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 115K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Downloads are up 9% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce.
5/53 reviews
2.0K+active installs
115K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
This plugin is designed to help you curate your content. It lets you assign and order stories within zones that you create, edit, and delete, and display those groupings of related stories on your site.
This plugin was originally built by Mohammad Jangda in conjunction with William Davis and the Bangor Daily News.
Features
- Add, edit, and delete zones.
- Add and remove posts (or any custom post type) to or from zones.
- Order posts in any given zone.
- Limit capabilities on who can add, edit, and delete zones vs add content to zones.
- Locking mechanism, so only one user can edit a zone at a time (to avoid conflicts).
- Idle control, so people can’t keep the zone locked.
Function Reference
Get an array of all zones:
z_get_zones()
Get a single zone, accepts either ID or slug:
z_get_zone( $zo…Screenshots
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Reliable and scalable
by cjaimet·7 years ago
We have been using this plugin for five years on 20 major news sites and it is integral to our daily work.
Good!
by 1·10 years ago
I have a idea for my blog, where some topic divided to few different posts ans user can freely navigate between different parts of it.
This plugin helped me a lot!
Thanks developer!
Fantastic!
by Maor Chasen·13 years ago
It’s just awesome. I use it regularly and love it!
Download Trends
Today: 58Yesterday: 204This week: 842Period total: 20K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.8
49.0%
v0.10
45.9%
Other
5.1%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
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Contributors
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