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Post Types Order
Sort posts and custom post type objects using a drag-and-drop, sortable JavaScript AJAX interface, or through the default WordPress dashboard
- Installs
- 600,000+
- Rating
- 4.5 (296)
- Updated
- 10 days ago
Intuitive Custom Post Order
Intuitively reorder Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Sites with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
- Active installs
- 400,000+
- #152 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 3.1M
- 3,133,109
- Downloads, 30 days
- 36.9K
- 13.1K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5
- 139 reviews
- Last updated
- 13 months ago
- Sep 16, 2025
- Version
- 3.2.0
- 27 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | September 16, 2025Not updated for over a year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 6.8.12Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 3.5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | Not stated |
| First published | October 21, 2012 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
Reviews
4.4 / 5 from 139 reviews
| 5 stars | 113 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 4 |
| 3 stars | 3 |
| 2 stars | 2 |
| 1 star | 17 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Intuitively reorder Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Sites with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Intuitive Custom Post Order lets you reorder items with simple drag and drop in the WordPress admin.
You can sort Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and (on Multisite) Sites.
Go to Settings → Intuitive CPO and select which content types you want to make sortable.
Once enabled, just drag and drop items in the list tables—no extra setup is required.
If you create custom queries in your theme or plugins, set orderby=menu_order and order=ASC to respect the drag-and-drop order.
To keep the default WordPress order (by date), explicitly set orderby=date and order=DESC.
Source code and development are available on GitHub.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Do I need to change my theme to make ordering work?
No. After activation, items are sortable in the admin UI, and front-end queries for enabled post types are ordered by menu_order ASC automatically—unless you explicitly pass your own orderby.
How do I make my custom query respect the drag-and-drop order?
Specify orderby=menu_order and order=ASC in your query args.
WP_Query:
<?php new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'your_cpt', 'orderby' => 'menu_order', 'order' => 'ASC', ) ); ?>
get_posts():
<?php get_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'your_cpt', 'orderby' => 'menu_order', 'order' => 'ASC', ) ); ?>
I want date order (newest first) for a specific query. How?
Explicitly set:
<?php new WP_Query( array( 'orderby' => 'date', 'order' => 'DESC', ) ); ?>
For get_posts(), the plugin supports a small switch:
<?php get_posts( array( 'orderby' => 'default_date', 'order' => 'DESC', ) ); ?>
Is query_posts() supported?
query_posts() is discouraged by WordPress core because it alters the main query in a fragile way.
Use pre_get_posts (recommended) or WP_Query instead.
Example with pre_get_posts to force date order on the main blog page:
<?php add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $q ) { if ( is_admin() || ! $q->is_main_query() ) { return; } if ( is_home() ) { $q->set( 'orderby', 'date' ); $q->set( 'order', 'DESC' ); } } ); ?>
Does this work with taxonomies and terms?
Yes. For enabled taxonomies, terms can be reordered and are returned in that order on the front end.
When you build custom term queries, make sure you don’t override the order unless you intend to.
Multisite: can I reorder Sites in Network Admin?
Yes. When enabled in Network settings, Sites are ordered by menu_order ASC. Drag & drop in Network Admin updates the order.
Latest changelog entry
- Security hardening: unified CSRF/nonces, capability checks, and standardized JSON responses in all AJAX handlers.
- Network admin: switched to manage_network_options capability and *_site_option APIs for multisite settings.
- Improved redirect handling: use admin_url() / network_admin_url() and ensure exit; after redirects.
- Input sanitization: strengthened handling of $_GET, $_POST, and $_SERVER values with strict comparisons.
- Code refactoring: replaced custom version parsing with get_file_data(), cleaned up pre_get_posts return values.
Screenshots
Settings screen (choose sortable post types and taxonomies). 
Reordering posts with drag and drop. 
Reordering taxonomy terms. 
Network settings (for Multisite).
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#187 by installs
Simple Custom Post Order
Easily reorder posts, pages, custom post types, and taxonomies with intuitive drag-and-drop sorting in the WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (587)
- Updated
- 12 days ago
Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.