Drew Gourley

Order Up!
A series of plugins for WordPress which allow for the ordering of pages, posts, and taxonomies through a simple 
drag-and-drop interface using the available WordPress scripts and styles. The plugins are extremely lightweight, 
without a bunch of unnecessary scripts to load into the admin. They also fall in line gracefully with the look 
and feel of the WordPress interface.

Custom Post Order

Allows for the ordering of posts and custom post types through a simple drag-and-drop interface

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Smart Category Ordering is a plugin that allows you to sort your post content (per category). You can apply your sorting to a single category, or have your settings follow a category tree, covering the parent and children categories.
When sorting by “Smart Title”, that option is there to the leading ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’ from a post title when sorting. This is the only difference between “Smart Title” and “Title.”

Smart Category Ordering

Allows you to alphabetize categories by post title, by trimming leading text, by post date.

Custom Post Order vs Smart Category Ordering