I Order Terms Plugin

Plugin can be used for reordering categories, tags and custom taxonomies. This plugin is primarily intended as an aid to theme developers.

Plugin supports multisite installation.

Requirements

The minimum requirement is that you have at least WordPress 3.5 installed.

Example usage

Fetching sorted terms from custom taxonomy will be enabled by default:

$terms = get_terms( 'your-taxonomy-name' ); 

If you wish to sort by name (disable plugin’s custom sorting) you will have to set ‘i_order_terms’ to ‘false’:

$terms = get_terms( 'your-taxonomy-name', 'i_order_terms=0' ); 

Warning

Plugin ads new column to ‘term_taxonomy’ table, make sure to backup your database before installing. Column is removed when you delete plugin.

1. You can download and install “I Order Terms” plugin by using the built in WordPress plugin installer. Or you can upload plugin folder “i-order-terms” manually to your “/wp-content/plugins/” directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” menu in WordPress.
3. You will need to enable plugin for taxonomy that you wish to sort.

Enabling plugin for taxonomy

You can use settings page or add code in your function file. There are two options you can use to make taxonomy sortable:

1) You can enable sorting when registering taxonomy:

register_taxonomy( 'your-taxonomy-name', 'your-post-type', array( 'label' => __('Category'), // this parameter is used to enable // sorting for taxonomy 'your-taxonomy-name' 'i_order_terms' => true, )); 

2) Other option is to pass array of taxonomies (or tags/categories) via filter “i_order_terms_taxonomies” in your functions file like this:

function custom_i_order_terms_taxonomies($taxonomies) { $taxonomies = array_merge($taxonomies, array('taxonomy', 'category')); return $taxonomies; } add_filter('i_order_terms_taxonomies', 'custom_i_order_terms_taxonomies'); 

This will enable taxonomy sorting for ‘taxonomy’ and ‘category’ taxonomies.
Naturally you will have to provide your taxonomy names.

1. 

   The screenshot of Category section after drag and drop reorder operation.

2. 

   Settings section where you can select which taxonomy should be sortable.

Will this work on WordPress multisite?

Yes, it will work on multisite installation.

What permissions are required for users to reorder terms?

User needs to have “manage_categories” permission to be able to order terms.

Where can I report a bug?

You can report bugs from contact form on my website at http://www.igorware.com/contact.
Please make sure to include plugin version when reporting bugs.

1.5.0

• Added check/uncheck all checkbox in options

1.4.0

• Minified css and js assets
• Fixed text domain usage

1.3.1

• Shows taxonomy name next to taxonomy label in plugin settings. This should avoid confusion when there are several taxonomies with same label

1.3.0

• Sort (drag&drop) is now available right after you add new term, no need to refresh page like before
• Improved security by preventing directory browsing
• Removed screenshots from plugin folder, this should save you some bandwidth 🙂

1.2.0

• Added link to settings on plugins page
• Settings page completely rewritten to use WordPress Settings API
• Drag & drop can now be done in different levels i.e. you can now change parent of dragged item

1.1.0

• Added settings page for plugin
• Removed limitation of accepting only one taxonomy when using functions like get_categories and get_terms

1.0.0

• Initial release