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<p><strong>Bracket Post Order</strong> gives you complete control over how your content is sorted — directly from the native WordPress admin screens you already use. No new interfaces to learn, no separate reorder pages. Just drag and drop.</p>
<p>A key feature is <strong>per-term post ordering</strong>: the ability to define a different post order for each individual category, tag, or custom taxonomy term. Show your products in one order on “Summer Collection” and a completely different order on “Best Sellers” — each term maintains its own independent sort.</p>
<h4>Three Types of Ordering</h4>
<p><strong>1. Global Post Ordering</strong><br />
Drag-and-drop to reorder posts, pages, and custom post types on the standard admin list table. The new order is saved to <code>menu_order</code> and automatically applied on the front end.</p>
<p><strong>2. Per-Term Post Ordering</strong><br />
Filter your admin list by a category or taxonomy term, and the interface switches to per-term mode. Drag posts into the order you want for <em>that specific term</em>. Assign the same post to multiple categories — each one keeps its own sort. New posts added to a term automatically appear first (newest on top).</p>
<p><strong>3. Taxonomy Term Ordering</strong><br />
Reorder categories, tags, and custom taxonomy terms themselves via drag-and-drop on the native <code>edit-tags.php</code> screen. The new term order is applied to <code>get_terms()</code> queries and navigation menus on the front end.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reset Order</strong> — Reset post order by date or title with one click. Most requested feature across all ordering plugins.</li>
<li><strong>Undo</strong> — “Order saved. [Undo]” link appears for 8 seconds after every reorder. Click to revert instantly.</li>
<li><strong>Mobile/Touch Support</strong> — Full touch drag-and-drop on phones and tablets via jQuery UI Touch Punch.</li>
<li><strong>Keyboard Accessibility</strong> — Tab to a row, Enter to activate, Arrow keys to move, Enter to save, Escape to cancel. WCAG compliant.</li>
<li><strong>Order Column</strong> — “#” column shows each post’s position number at a glance.</li>
<li><strong>WPML & Polylang Support</strong> — Per-term ordering works correctly across languages.</li>
<li><strong>Admin Bar Indicator</strong> — Shows current ordering mode (Global or Per-Term) in the admin bar.</li>
<li><strong>Settings Link</strong> — Quick access from the Plugins page.</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings > Bracket Post Order</strong></li>
<li>Toggle on the post types you want to reorder</li>
<li>Toggle on taxonomies for per-term post ordering</li>
<li>Toggle on taxonomies for term reordering</li>
<li>Visit your admin list pages and start dragging</li>
</ol>
<p>Changes save automatically via AJAX — no page refresh needed.</p>
<h4>Built for WordPress, Not Against It</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works directly inside native admin list tables (<code>edit.php</code> and <code>edit-tags.php</code>)</li>
<li>Uses standard <code>menu_order</code> for global ordering — compatible with any theme</li>
<li>Uses <code>term_order</code> for taxonomy terms — the same column WordPress defines</li>
<li>Per-term order stored as term meta — clean, portable, conflict-free</li>
<li>Front-end queries are modified transparently via <code>pre_get_posts</code> and <code>posts_clauses</code></li>
<li>Explicit <code>orderby</code> parameters (date, title, etc.) are never overridden</li>
</ul>
<h4>Works With</h4>
<ul>
<li>Any public custom post type (portfolios, team members, testimonials, events, FAQs, services)</li>
<li>WooCommerce products and product categories</li>
<li>Any registered taxonomy with a UI</li>
<li>Page builders that use standard <code>WP_Query</code> (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder)</li>
<li>Themes that follow WordPress template hierarchy</li>
<li>WPML and Polylang multilingual plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>For Developers</h4>
<p>Bracket Post Order provides hooks so you can extend or control its behavior:</p>
<pre><code>// Filter: skip per-term ordering for a specific query
add_filter( 'bracket_po_apply_term_post_order', function( $apply, $term_id, $query ) {
    // Return false to skip
    return $apply;
}, 10, 3 );

// Filter: modify the retrieved term post order
add_filter( 'bracket_po_get_term_post_order', function( $ordered_ids, $term_id ) {
    return $ordered_ids;
}, 10, 2 );

// Actions: fired after order is saved via drag-and-drop
do_action( 'bracket_po_global_order_updated', $post_ids );
do_action( 'bracket_po_term_post_order_updated', $term_id, $post_ids );
do_action( 'bracket_po_term_order_updated', $term_ids );

// Actions: fired after order is reset
do_action( 'bracket_po_global_order_reset', $post_type, $sort_by );
do_action( 'bracket_po_term_post_order_reset', $term_id );
</code></pre>
<p>To apply per-term order in custom queries, set <code>orderby</code> to <code>menu_order</code> and include a <code>tax_query</code> with a single term:</p>
<pre><code>$query = new WP_Query( [
    'post_type' => 'product',
    'orderby'   => 'menu_order',
    'order'     => 'ASC',
    'tax_query' => [ [
        'taxonomy' => 'product-category',
        'field'    => 'term_id',
        'terms'    => 42,
    ] ],
] );
</code></pre>
<p>The plugin will automatically apply the saved per-term order via <code>FIELD()</code> SQL — ordered posts appear first, new/unordered posts appear last (sorted by date, newest on top).</p>


Bracket Post Order

Drag-and-drop ordering for posts, pages, custom post types, and taxonomy terms — with per-category post ordering.

Invoicepress

Fahad Mahmood

Kiran Zehra

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<p>Author: <a href="https://www.androidbubbles.com/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">Fahad Mahmood</a></p>
</li>
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<p>Project URI: <a href="http://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/wp-sort-order" rel="nofollow ugc">http://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/wp-sort-order</a></p>
</li>
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<p>License: GPL 3. See License below for copyright jots and titles.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Order terms (Users, Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies) using a Drag and Drop with jQuery ui Sortable.</p>
<p>Select sortable items from ‘WP Sort Order’ menu of Setting menu in WordPress.</p>
<p>In addition, You can re-override the parameters of ‘orderby’ and ‘order’, by using the ‘WP_Query’ or ‘pre_get_posts’ or ‘query_posts()’.<br />
The ‘get_posts()’ is excluded.</p>
<p>At a glance by WordPress Mechanic:<br />
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<h3>License</h3>
<p>This WordPress Plugin is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or any later version. This free software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this software. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.</p>


WP Sort Order

Its an ultimate convenience for sorting terms and taxonomies.

Always a convenience for backend sortables

Order terms (Users, Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies) using a Drag and Drop with jQuery ui Sortable.

Bracket Post Order vs WP Sort Order