Amit Sonkhiya

K.K.Agarwal

Gutenberg Editor already maintains the parent-child relationship when you select a category. So the child doesn’t move at the top in the category meta box. So this plugin isn’t required if you’re using the Gutenberg Editor.
Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin applies to WordPress Classic Post Editor only.
This plugin contains functionality to let you maintain default hierarchical order of categories when you select and save them for a post in your WordPress Admin Classic Post Editor.
The selected category/categories, to which a post belongs, are by default pushed at the top in the Category tab while saving the post. Whereas activating Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin will keep the position of selected category/categories unchanged as per their parent/child relationship.
For support, use support page available here or visit <a href="https://www.astech.solutions/wordpress-javascript-jquery-plugins/categories-hierarchical-order/" rel="nofollow ugc">the page</a> at our official website. A <a href="https://github.com/as-tx/categories-hierarchical-order" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repo</a> is also there to post issues, contribution and feature requests.

Categories in Hierarchical Order

Does exactly what you expect from this plugin. Nice!

Works great!

Does exactly what should be the default option in Wordpress, great! Sorely needed if you have many categories (possibly with very similar names) and rely on a complex hierarchy.

Great!

Perfect

Why is this not part of the WordPress core yet? This plugin fixed my ugly looking category structure! Thanks guys!

Brilliant!

Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin maintains the hierarchical order of categories list in the Category tab under your WordPress Admin Post Editor …

Oomph, Inc.

Ben Byrne

kenjigarland

Jake Goldman

Adds a new widget type you can deploy in your sidebar regions (and/or elsewhere) to display section-based navigation, along with the ability to exclude certain pages from showing up.
The title of the widget is the top level page within the current section. The widget then can show all of the page’s published siblings (except on the top level page), all parents and grandparents (and higher), the siblings of all parents and grandparents (up to top level page), and any immediate children of the current page. It can also be called by a function inside template files.
It includes a simple widget configuration panel. From this panel you can:
<ol>
<li>Determine whether the widget should appear on the home page</li>
<li>Override standard behavior and have the widget show all pages in the current section</li>
<li>Determine whether the widget should appear even if the section only has one page (the top level)</li>
<li>Provide a list of pages to exclude from the output</li>
<li>Determine whether the section navigation should still appear when viewing excluded pages</li>
<li>Use a specific widget title (i.e. In This Section), or just use the top level page title</li>
<li>Determine whether the section title should be linked</li>
<li>Determine page sort order (defaults to menu order)</li>
</ol>
The widget uses standard WordPress navigation classes, in addition to a unique class around the widget, for easy styling. The UL of the page list also has a custom class, <code>bsn-list</code>, that can be altered via the <code>bsn_list_class</code> filter.
Beginning with version 1.5, Better Section Navigation also incorporates the features of the defunct <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/exclude-pages/" rel="ugc">Exclude Pages</a> plugin, giving you the ability to selectively exclude specific pages from appearing in the widget generated by Better Section Navigation. This per-page control is managed via a metabox on the post edit screen. Note: On activation, BSN will automatically import the list of “excluded pages” set via that plugin, so you don’t have to manually re-assign excludes pages before deactivating the old one.
Compatible with WordPress Multisite.
This plugin started life as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-section-navigation/" rel="ugc">Simple Section Navigation Widget</a>, but since that plugin hasn’t been updated in a while, we’ve taken up the reins with the goal of keeping it up to date with the latest WordPress conventions (i.e. getting rid of deprecation warnings) and adding a few nice-to-have features while retaining some of the simplicity of the original plugin.
Simple Section Navigation Widget is incompatible with PHP 8.x, so as of October 2022, Better Section Navigation is now a drop-in replacement for Simple Section Navigation Widget. If you’ve been using Simple Section Navigation, you can now use this one instead without changing any settings! NOTE: Deactivate Simple Section Navigation Widget before activating Better Section Navigation.

Better Section Navigation

Creates a new widget for listing section-based navigation -- essential for contextual navigation. Also implements a template function and a shortcode.

Categories in Hierarchical Order vs Better Section Navigation