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Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order
A simple way to organize terms that occasionally loses its memory.
Healthy
82/100
It simplifies taxonomy management but sometimes fails to keep your custom order.
Active installs
~550,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 500k+
Rating
4.5★
162 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+4%
Holding steady
1,952 → 2,026 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · +4% in the last year
1,952/day a year ago→2,026/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCategory Order and Taxonomy Terms Order is well-regarded as a simple, effective tool for reordering categories and taxonomies — including WooCommerce and CPTs — but a handful of users report reliability issues where custom ordering breaks or interferes with other plugins' taxonomies.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, described as a time-saver for managing many categories×7
- +Works well with WooCommerce and custom post types×3
- +Support is praised as excellent
Common complaints
- −Order changes randomly on page refresh, making the plugin unreliable for some users
- −Installing the plugin breaks get_terms() sorting even for taxonomies where custom sorting is disabled in settings
- −Interferes with custom taxonomies from other plugins, causing ordering to break
- −Category order changes do not persist after the plugin is deactivated — ordering is entirely dependent on the plugin remaining active
- −Terms cannot be moved outside of their hierarchy (no re-parenting via drag-and-drop)
- −No option to reset or wipe plugin settings
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.43★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 162 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-12★★★★★Simple and useful toolyodastudio
- 2026-01-15★★★★★Excellent!andyt1980
- 2025-04-26★★★★★Happy with this plugin!ldwd
- 2025-03-12★★★★★Works great, but I'm stuck on one thingtimokuijpers02
- 2024-06-17★★★★★amazinglucytech
- 2023-11-19★★★★★Easy to useKasutan
- 2023-11-15★★★★★Randomly changes the order on refreshtheorygeorgiou
- 2023-10-02★★★★★Good plugin, but has consPavel Leontiev
- 2023-09-25★★★★★Does not allow re-parentingparakeet
- 2023-07-13★★★★★Makes life easyflyswatter
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
1,806
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
1,921
Prior 7-day baseline
3,620
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
42,091
Mean release-day peak (30d)
4,026
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-6.0%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.86
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
83%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.48 → 4.43★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered