Wordpress Plugin – My Category Order

My Category Order allows you to set the order in which Post categires will appear on your Wordpress site. Uses a drag and drop interface for ordering. Adds a widget with additional options for easy installation on widgetized themes.

My Category Order was released in 2006 and has been compatible with every version of Wordpress from 1.5 to 2.8.5. It went through a lot of changes, but the effort needed to keep it backwards compatible was quite burdensome. Breaking support for versions of WP older than 2.8 allowed for the inclusion of a more powerful widget and the removal of the horrible taxonomy.php patch (believe me I hated it more than anyone).

The most exciting change comes from the move to the new Widget API. It makes adding support for multiple widget instances a snap. Rewriting the widget code also allowed me to add widget options for nearly every single parameter normally available to the wp_list_categories template function. If you were being held back by the lack of options on the built in Categories widget then definitely check that out.

The plugin is available here: My Category Order - Wordpress.org Plugin Directory

If you'd like to say thank you or make a donation please visit my Gifts and Donations page.

54 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin – My Category Order”

shinohara takeo commented on December 2, 2009 at 11:08 pm

many thanks!
Craig Milligan commented on December 4, 2009 at 10:00 am

Hi,

With Mycategory order I have installed it uninstalled it ftp installed it and it is not working no matter what I do.

Is there any bugs or any known problems since WP 2.8.6?

Regards,
leo commented on December 13, 2009 at 4:26 am

hello,
i install your plug in but he wont make any changes to my cat and sub cat.

any idea why?
my blog in in Hebrew. is it matter ?

thanks
Rick commented on December 13, 2009 at 5:07 am

In order to make it work on my site, I had to update the parameters within the function wp_list_categories. I added orderby=order in the function call. The complete code that works for me is:
cameron schwartz commented on December 16, 2009 at 5:09 am

re: Rick,

Can you please give us the code you used to modify your parameters? Did you make the changes in the functions.php file?
Javier commented on December 18, 2009 at 3:41 am

Hi!
i install your plug in, it lets me order the cats… but after finishing (“clik here to order”) id does not make any changes to my cat order.
My wordpress is in spanish language.

thanks for your workout!
Edward Caissie commented on December 19, 2009 at 8:44 am

Great plugin, two things though:

1. The checkbox options are not visually holding their status. This code starting around line 389 in mycategoryorder.php will fix it (note the addition of (bool) ):

<input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" id=”get_field_id(’show_dropdown’); ?>” name=”get_field_name(’show_dropdown’); ?>” />
<label for="get_field_id(’show_dropdown’); ?>”>

…

<input class="checkbox" type="checkbox" id=”get_field_id(‘hierarchical’); ?>” name=”get_field_name(‘hierarchical’); ?>” />
<label for="get_field_id(‘hierarchical’); ?>”>

2. Are you considering the possibility of adding additional option(s) to show the posts, maybe a recent list of excerpts, under each category?
Edward Caissie commented on December 19, 2009 at 8:47 am

It seems your comment functions stripped out the complete code I posted, my bad. Drop me a note and I would be happy to send you the edited file.
Bob commented on December 19, 2009 at 9:54 am

Thanks for the effort put into this plugin. I took over a site for a new client who was using the older version. When I upgraded to the new version, the descriptions were no longer visible. Instead of the description being displayed on mouseover, what I get is “View all posts filed under…”

What am I missing or doing wrong here?
rb commented on December 21, 2009 at 2:11 pm

Your plugin does not work in new version Word Press (2.9).
When you fix?
Ahmed Irfan Shafqat commented on December 28, 2009 at 11:59 pm

rb, the plugin is working really fine with WP 2.9. I have installed it just now.

Andrew, thanks for this plugin!
Kim Wesley commented on January 14, 2010 at 5:16 am

’m using WordPress MU 2.8.6. On the blogs I’ve created, I am using the FoCal plugin combined with My Category Order. When I publish a post from an admin account, everything works fine. If I publish from an author account, the My Category Order defaults to alphabetical order and the numbers after the categories to indicate how many posts have been written in that category does not update. If I publish from an editor account, the numbers do update, but the My Category Order still defaults back to alphabetical. If I log in to admin and rebuild the cache in FoCal, it goes back to how it’s supposed to look. Will I always have to rebuild the cache after every posting?

I’m don’t have much technical knowledge with coding the WordPress theme. I used Artisteer 2 to create it. But, if you point me in the right direction I can probably fix it.

One of the sites I’m working with is http://www.grubcritic.com/annarbor

Best Wishes,

Kim
Lisa commented on January 21, 2010 at 10:15 pm

I cannot get this to work either. Can anyone tell me exactly which file in which directory (wp-admin)? I need to modify and where with what text?
I think I need to add something to the sidebar.php file, but unsure as to exactly what and where.
Many thanks,
Lisa
Lisa commented on January 21, 2010 at 10:55 pm

You have been such a huge help. Thanks so much for everything!!! Works great!
Aivaras commented on January 27, 2010 at 7:24 am

That would be great if plugin would use some css… or would be wrapped in some or at least it could use some predefined id names for and tags.
Then I use it as widged its no way how to wrap it in your own div.

Or the widget could have some fields like AddBefore and AddAfter
Aivaras commented on January 27, 2010 at 7:25 am

That would be great if plugin would use some css… or would be wrapped in some ‘div id=”MyCategoryOrder”‘ or at least it could use some predefined id names for ‘ul’ and ‘li’ tags
Then use it as widged its no way how to wrap it in your own div

Or the widget could have some fields like AddBefore and AddAfter
Pierre Sudarovich commented on February 8, 2010 at 3:11 am

Hi,

firstly i wish to thanks you for your great plugins and for the share of them. I’ve updated the french translation for my-page-order, my-category-order and my-link-order and have done some (very) littles “corrections/modifications” in them (for translations purposes) and i wish to be able to send you the files.
Could you please contact me by mail, by the way i’ll send you back the modified files ;).

Thanks again.

Amicably,

Pierre.
Michael Oeser commented on February 11, 2010 at 4:10 am

Hi,

following the WP Codex there is no orderby=order parameter (although it works). See http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Parameters

Why is that? Is this an issue of the Codex or does the plugin make use ob invalid parameters?

Thanks
Michael
Roman commented on February 11, 2010 at 8:04 am

Hi,
love the plugin, have a question though:
is there a way to assign a special CSS class to the current selected item, so we could highlight it?
Thomas O commented on February 17, 2010 at 3:05 am

This plugin looks like it’s exactly what I need. However, it isn’t changing the categories on my site. I am using WPN2 premium theme, not sure if that makes a difference.

I have a mixed martial arts site with about 10 total categories, so I really would like to get them organized correctly so they’re not too awkward. If you have a suggestion or seeing would help, I’m at http://mma.bs

Thanks!
Swapnil Kale commented on February 20, 2010 at 11:39 am

Very Very Helpful! Thanks a lot. :)
Gareth commented on March 2, 2010 at 9:03 am

In case it helps someone to remove the category title I used a html space such as

Great plugin I was trying to do this for hours today.
andreas commented on March 3, 2010 at 12:04 pm

Hey there,

one question:

is it possible to use the my category order-managed sorting within the following wordpress code as a parameter?

wp_list_categories(‘title_li=0&orderby=name&show_count=0&exclude=1′);

for example: orderby=mycategoryorder

thank a lot for your help and this great plugin,
andreas
Don commented on March 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm

where is one supposed to find the “category id” ?

A Newbie
Bonfire commented on March 8, 2010 at 2:27 am
Bonfire commented on March 8, 2010 at 2:29 am

Hi
wp_list_categories(‘orderby=order&title_li=’);

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Wordpress Plugin – My Category Order

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