John James Jacoby

Stuttter

<p>Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms</p>
<p>WP Term Colors allows users to assign colors to any visible category, tag, or taxonomy term using a fancy color picker, providing a customized look for their taxonomies.</p>
<h4>Dependencies</h4>
<p>This plugin requires <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-meta/" title="Metadata, for taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Meta</a></p>
<h4>Also checkout</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-chosen/" title="Make long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly." rel="ugc">WP Chosen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-pretty-filters/" title="Makes post filters better match what's already in Media & Attachments." rel="ugc">WP Pretty Filters</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-event-calendar/" title="The best way to manage events in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP Event Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-media-categories/" title="Add categories to media & attachments." rel="ugc">WP Media Categories</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-order/" title="Sort taxonomy terms, your way." rel="ugc">WP Term Order</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-authors/" title="Authors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Authors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-colors/" title="Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Colors</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-icons/" title="Pretty icons for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-term-visibility/" title="Visibilities for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms." rel="ugc">WP Term Visibility</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-activity/" title="The best way to log activity in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Activity</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatars/" title="Allow users to upload avatars or choose them from your media library." rel="ugc">WP User Avatars</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-groups/" title="Group users together with taxonomies & terms." rel="ugc">WP User Groups</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-profiles/" title="A sophisticated way to edit users in WordPress." rel="ugc">WP User Profiles</a></li>
</ul>


WP Term Colors

I needed to save colors for terms, and found that @jjj had already done the work. Accessing the saved colors is pretty straightforward using the new (WP 4.4 or newer) built-in utility function:
$color = get_term_meta( $term_id, 'color', true );
The terms are saved in hex format (#eeee22) so are ready to use once retrieved.
Thanks @jjj.



Works well with WP's new termmeta table

Pretty colors for categories, tags, and other taxonomy terms

Evan Herman

Tracy Levesque

yikesitskevin

karmadharma

<p>Order all of the taxonomy terms on your site with a simple to use, intuitive drag and drop interface. The plugin works for WordPress core taxonomies — Categories and Tags — and any custom taxonomies you have created.</p>
<p>Activate the plugin, enable your taxonomy on the settings page, and drag and drop the taxonomies into the desired position. It couldn’t be easier.</p>
<p>On the front end of the site your taxonomy terms will display in the order set in the dashboard.</p>
<p><strong>Requires WordPress 4.4 or later due to the use of the term meta.</strong><br />
<strong>Query Usage</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>If you’re trying to query for taxonomy terms (e.g. using <code>WP_Query</code> or functions like <code>get_terms()</code>), and you’d like them to be returned in the order specified by the plugin, you need to add the tax_position parameter in your call. For example: <code>'meta_key' => 'tax_position'</code> and  <code>'orderby' => 'tax_position'</code>. Thanks to @certainlyakey on GitHub for pointing this out.</li>
</ul>


Simple Taxonomy Ordering

I think this is the easiest/best custom Taxonomy order plugin, as it keeps it within the same WordPress admin screen, does not create its own page. 

Simple

Works like a charm - use it

The best drag&drop ordering of terms so far.

Thanks so much!!

Quickly and easily reorder taxonomy terms with an easy to use and intuitive drag and drop interface.

WP Term Colors vs Simple Taxonomy Ordering