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.

Satish Dharavia

E2msolutions

<p>This plugin helps to generate multiple re-ordering interface for your post types as well as custom post types as many times as you required for your custom development. With such a custom ordering facility, it will be much faster and easier for the crawlers to generate multiple ordering for same post types as well as individual post types.</p>
<p>This plugin development aims to get solutions when you want to display <strong>custom ordering for one post-type i.e. HomePage</strong> AND <strong>custom ordering for same post-type i.e. on Custom Post Page</strong> with the help of query code in your custom templates.</p>
<p>In order to configure settings, navigate to <strong>[ WordPress Admin -> Settings -> Multiple Post Types Order ]</strong>, where you can see two options:</p>
<ol>
<li>Show/Hide Re-Ordering Interface for Post Types</li>
<li>No of times Re-Ordering required</li>
</ol>
<p>After configuring your settings, “MPT Order #” will be displayed on your desired post types and under it, you can drag and drop Re-Order by your Post Titles, hit ‘Save’ and click on <strong>Display Query Code</strong>. You can use this Query code in your custom templates and customize look-n-feel and your desired result will be displayed.</p>
<h4>Example Display Query Code:</h4>
<pre><code>&lt;?php $data = new WP_Query( 
                    array(  'post_type' => 'post', 
                            'post_status' => array( 'publish'),
                            'posts_per_page' => -1, 
                            'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 
                            'meta_key' => 'custom_order_type_snv_1', 
                            'order' => 'ASC',   
                    )); ?>
<?php while ( $data->have_posts() ) : $data->the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php endwhile;?>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?&gt;
</code></pre>
<h4>Example Display shortcode:</h4>
<pre>[mpto post_type='post' meta_key='custom_order_type_snv_1']</pre>
<p>OR</p>
<pre>[mpto post_type='post' meta_key='custom_order_type_snv_1' posts_per_page='10' limit='250' readmore='Readmore' style='style11' google_font='Roboto' item_width='300' item_height='300' des_size='10' title_size='18' it_margin='2' title_color='#ffffff' des_color='#ffffff']</pre>
<h4>Shortcode Builder</h4>
<ul>
<li>`post_type` – Your list of post types given in query code</li>
<li>`meta_key` – Your meta key value given in query code</li>
<li>`posts_per_page` – Display number of lists per page</li>
<li>`limit` – Character limit for excerpt or content</li>
<li>`readmore` – Custom label for more text with link</li>
<li>`style` – You can choose amazing hover style effects from style1 to style22 </li>
<li>`google_font` – You can add your desired google fonts by name</li>
<li>`item_width` – Set your desired width</li>
<li>`item_height` – Set your desired height</li>
<li>`des_size` – Set your desired description font size</li>
<li>`title_size` – Set your desired title font size</li>
<li>`it_margin` – Set custom right margin </li>
<li>`title_color` – Set title color based on website color</li>
<li>`des_color` – Set description color based on website color</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Advantages</h4>
<ol>
<li>Any Post Types multiple times Re-Order</li>
<li>Supports Hierarchical Post Types Re-Order for Both – Parent & Child Posts</li>
<li>Supports individual child posts re-ordering from any parent post</li>
</ol>
<h4>NOTE</h4>
<p>If desired results are not displaying on front-end after setting up re-ordering in admin, please click “Reset Order” once and set re-ordering again. This will solve your issue.</p>
<p>We have this plugin compatible gutenberg.</p>


Multiple Post Type Order

Ease to use ordering post

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