Ordering Categories

[valllabh]

There should be provision to order categories. This will open up many possibilities to use with CustomPost types.

[SergeyBiryukov]

You mean something like ​My Category Order? Sounds like plugin territory to me.

[valllabh]

"My Category Order" is altering the "terms" table and it provides separate UI to order them.

If we are able to define custom Taxonomy, why taxonomy should not have order field. Even posts have order field. This is really very useful.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #9547

[husobj]

I also think that terms should have a 'menu_order' field in the database and a simple numeric order field (like posts) when editing a term in the admin.

Plugins can provide advanced drag-n-drop ordering functionality but it would make sense for there to be a consistent data field that can be used by all.

I imagine this may be easier to implement once terms are no longer shared as per the [potential roadmap for taxonomies](​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/07/28/potential-roadmap-for-taxonomy-meta-and-post-relationships/) as terms used by two multiple taxonomies would need to be able to have different order values.

[boonebgorges]

Replying to husobj:

I also think that terms should have a 'menu_order' field in the database and a simple numeric order field (like posts) when editing a term in the admin.

Plugins can provide advanced drag-n-drop ordering functionality but it would make sense for there to be a consistent data field that can be used by all.

I imagine this may be easier to implement once terms are no longer shared as per the [potential roadmap for taxonomies](​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/07/28/potential-roadmap-for-taxonomy-meta-and-post-relationships/) as terms used by two multiple taxonomies would need to be able to have different order values.

I pretty much agree with this. See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/30244#comment:2.

[swissspidy]

I currently use and recommend ​WP Term Order for this. Term meta is now in core, so this could be leveraged if no other route seems doable.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Duplicate of #9547 and #30244.