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

Ronald Huereca

<p>We consider Reorder Terms a <strong>developer tool</strong>. If you do not know what <code>menu_order</code> or custom queries are, then this plugin is likely not for you.  This is an add-on to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/metronet-reorder-posts/" rel="ugc">Reorder Posts</a> and requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/metronet-reorder-posts/" rel="ugc">Reorder Posts 2.1.0 or greater</a>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>As a result, you can get reordered terms with a query such as:</p>
<pre><code>$query = array(
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'meta_query' => array(
        'relation' => 'OR',
        array(
            'key' => 'post_order',
            'compare' => 'NOT EXISTS'
        ),
        array(
            'key' => 'post_order',
            'value' => 0,
            'compare' => '>='
        )
    ),
    'hide_empty' => true,
    'parent' => 0
);
$terms = get_terms( 'post_format', $query );
echo '<ul>';
foreach( $terms as $term ) {
    printf( '<li>%s</li>', esc_html( $term->name ) );
}
echo '</ul>';
</code></pre>
<p>While admittedly the query isn’t exactly poetry, it’s efficient, and insanely flexible.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<li>Add-on to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/metronet-reorder-posts/" rel="ugc">Reorder Posts</a>, so there is only one place to do all your reordering.</li>
<li>Reorder terms for each taxonomy within each post type. Very flexible.</li>
<h3>Spread the Word</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin, please help spread the word.  Rate the plugin.  Write about the plugin.  Something 🙂</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Development happens on GitHub.</p>
<p>You are welcome to help us out and <a href="https://github.com/ronalfy/reorder-terms" rel="nofollow ugc">contribute on GitHub</a>.</p>


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