Plugin for custom sort order for categories?

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I’d like to employ a sort order option in my theme to allow categories to be sorted similar to pages. Can anyone recommend a plugin that does this?

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  1. I needed this requirement a while back. There’s a selection of plugins available, but nothing took my fancy. They were (in my opinion) either too bloated, poorly written, or the UI was either lacking or overly complex.

    Then I stumbled upon Term Menu Order. Essentially it adds a menu_order field to the terms database, and you use it the same way as the menu order for pages. Very simple, does the job!

    NB: I actually took the concept and rewrote in what I considered an improvement.

    • It’s oh-so-slightly less heavy on memory
    • Adds a simple orderby=term_order argument available for term function
    • Can control which taxonomies support ordering, either through the register_taxonomy() call or with WordPress hooks
    • Fixes one particular flaw – same terms in different taxonomies will share the same order, my plugin fixed this

    If this takes your fancy I can share 🙂

    My spin on the Term Order Plugin (MediaFire)

    The MediaFire upload has had it’s day, apologies. Will get a replacement set-up, perhaps on GitHub, soon…

  2. Bill Erickson and I recently updated the Term Menu Order plugin (which had fallen into disrepair). I actually came back here to see if TheDeadMedic’s solution was still available to use in improving the plugin some more… sorry to see that it’s not up.