Zack Tollman

<p>Surprisingly, WordPress does not provide a mechanism for sorting taxonomies by a custom defined order. Taxonomies can only be sorted by name or id. Custom Taxonomy Sort allows the average user a mechanism to define and display terms in a specified order. After installing Custom Taxonomy Sort, each taxonomy term will have the ability to have a “tax-order” value associated with it. This order is specified by doing the following:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to any taxonomy add or edit screen (e.g., wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category)</li>
<li>Fill in a numeric value for the “Order” field. By default, the order will be ascending, meaning it will sort from low to high (e.g., 1, 2, 3). These values can be added on the Add Taxonomy screen, the Edit Taxonomy screen, or through the Quick Edit panel.</li>
<li>Observe all of your terms automagically being sorted in the order you specified</li>
</ol>
<p>Custom Taxonomy Sort automatically applies the sort order to all instances in which the terms are displayed. All you need to do is define that order.</p>
<h4>Manual Mode</h4>
<p>In addition to automatically sorting the terms, Custom Taxonomy Sort allows developers to override the automatic sort to offer finer control over how terms are displayed in different parts of WordPress. Manual mode can be started by changing “Automatic Sort” to “Off” in the Custom Taxonomy Sort Settings page (wp-admin/options-general.php?page=custom-taxonomy-sort-settings). Once “Automatic Sort” is switched to “Off”, the terms will no longer be sorted automatically by the custom order. Instead, the custom sort order can be envoked with a new parameter for the “orderby” argument. Custom Taxonomy Sort allows you to use the following argument to access a custom sorted list of terms using “get_terms”</p>
<pre><code><?php get_terms('orderby=custom_sort'); ?>
</code></pre>
<p>Voila! Now, your terms will only be sorted by the specified order in the places that you want it sorted in this order. All other instances of displaying terms will revert to WordPress’ default of sorting the terms by name. Additionally, you can specifically have the terms sort in ascending (‘ASC’; default; e.g., 1, 2, 3) or descending (‘DESC’; e.g., 3, 2, 1) order by adding the “order” argument.</p>
<pre><code><?php get_terms('orderby=custom_sort&order=ASC'); ?>

<?php get_terms('orderby=custom_sort&order=DESC'); ?>
</code></pre>
<h4>Acknowledgements</h4>
<ul>
<li>Thanks to Jacob M Goldman for his excellent <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-term-meta/" rel="ugc">Simple Term Meta plugin</a>, which made programming the term meta quite simple. </li>
<li>Thanks to hydrowire <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-taxonomy-sort-error-in-quick-edit-post" rel="ugc">for pointing out a bug</a> fixed in 1.1.1</li>
<li>Thanks to “Mosey” for pointing out a bug with a situation in which order did not work for a custom taxonomy</li>
<li>Thanks to DUCK__BOY1981 for pointing out a bug where the column values where overridden inappropriately</li>
<li>Thanks to @martindj for pointing out a bug where the column value returned incorrectly</li>
</ul>


Custom Taxonomy Sort

Nice idea, but the plugin is quite severely broken and triggers nasty errors.
The problems do go away if you remove the function name clashes which are in the simple-term-meta.php file.
I'm guessing the errors have been occurring since WordPress 4.4 was released. So based on how long ago that was created, I'm assuming this plugin will never be updated :/



Broken

Custom Taxonomy Sort allows you to explicitly control the sort order of all taxonomy terms.

Erunafailaro

<p>WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll. See the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin page</a> or the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">author’s page</a> for more details.</p>
<p>See this <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/screenshots/" title="example of the WP Social Blogroll" rel="ugc">screenshot</a> for example.</p>
<p>The plugin retrieves the date of the most recent feed-item of the bookmarked site. The feeds must be indexed by Google as the plugin uses <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/" title="Google AJAX Feed API" rel="nofollow ugc">Google’s free AJAX Feed API</a>.</p>
<p>You no longer need a <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/signup.html" title="Google API Key" rel="nofollow ugc">Google API Key</a> to get it to work. If you own an API key, you can use it. But providing a key is optional.</p>
<p>Based on Google’s information, the age of the most recent feed-item is calculated and then displayed under each bookmark in your sidebar.</p>
<p><strong>Your blogroll can be sorted by the freshness of the bookmarks.</strong></p>
<p>Furthermore, the title and author of the freshest post and an icon for each bookmark can be displayed.</p>
<p>Get more info at the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/kategorien/feedreadingblogroll/" title="visit the development blog" rel="nofollow ugc">development blog</a> (<a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/kategorien/feedreadingblogroll/feed" title="subscribe to the feed" rel="nofollow ugc">feed</a>).</p>
<h3>Upgrading</h3>
<p>You are encouraged to use the plugin-upgrade-function that WordPress is offering.</p>
<p>However. if you would you are preferring a manual upgrade, follow these steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the most recent zip-file of this plugin and extract the contents.</li>
<li>On your server, where your WordPress-installation is located, delete the contents of this directory: <code>/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*</code></li>
<li>Upload all the new plugin-files to this directory (<code>/wp-content/plugins/feed-reading-blogroll/*</code>).</li>
<li>Login to your admin-dashboard and go to the plugin’s options-page.</li>
<li>Click on the JavaScript-tab and push the rebuild-button to generate a new JavaScript-file on the server.</li>
</ol>
<p>That’s it 🙂</p>
<h3>Language Support / Translations</h3>
<p>This plugin supports different languages. Check the <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/#language" title="language section" rel="nofollow ugc">language section</a> on my homepage for details. If you want to contribute with your own translation, feel free to contact me. I’d be delighted to add it to the plugin.</p>
<p>With the current version these languages are available:</p>
<ul>
<li>Belorussian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Portuguese</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>German</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Homepage</h3>
<p>The complete documentation is available at my <a href="http://www.weinschenker.name/plugin-feed-reading-blogroll/" title="website" rel="nofollow ugc">website</a>.</p>
<h3>Support Forum</h3>
<p>You will get help at the official WordPress <a href="https://wordpress.org/tags/feed-reading-blogroll?forum_id=10#postform" title="Support forum" rel="ugc">Forum</a>.</p>
<h3>Wiki</h3>
<p>You can find lots of information at my <a href="http://wiki.weinschenker.name/feedreadingblogroll:start" title="Wiki" rel="nofollow ugc">Wiki</a></p>


WP Social Blogroll

WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll.

Custom Taxonomy Sort vs WP Social Blogroll