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Custom Taxonomy Order · Version history

Custom Taxonomy Order changelog and version history

Latest version
4.0.2
Sep 28, 2026 (1 month ago)
Releases
18
since 2019
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.0 or later

Releases each year

  • 20191 release
  • 20205 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20242 releases
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 4.0.2Latest

    • 2024-11-27
    • Use transient for caching settings to have less database queries.

20242 releases

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 4.0.1

    • 2024-10-02
    • Add option to show slugs of terms.
    • Add data-term-order parameter to admin list of terms.
    • Loading plugin translations should be delayed until init action (in this case admin_init).
    • Use DIR instead of dirname(FILE).
    • Check for direct access of files.

  2. Custom Taxonomy Order 4.0.0

    • 2023-11-14
    • Move admin menu item under Tools.
    • On sub-subpages, have the menu-item for Tools open.
    • Add small advertisement for a recommended plugin (free).

20231 release

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.4.4

    • 2022-07-27
    • Use correct value for updating term_relationships table. this should fix some reported issues where the problem was unclear.
    • On updating order, list the number of terms that were updated.

20226 releases

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.4.3

    • 2022-04-30
    • Ouch, don’t do those calculations on frontend either when there are too many terms, it is too expensive.

  2. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.4.2

    • 2022-04-27
    • Do not use the previous change on admin dashboard, some WooCommerce pages are way too heavy with terms.

  3. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.4.1

    • 2022-04-27
    • Improve ordering nested sub-terms.

  4. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.4.0

    • 2022-03-14
    • Support order by post count.
    • Add filter ‘customtaxorder_get_taxonomies’.

  5. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.3.3

    • 2022-01-24
    • Traverse all parents for sorting child terms, not just the toplevel ancestor.
    • Some fixes on admin page for sorting subterms.
    • Add filter ‘customtaxorder_settings’.

  6. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.3.2

    • 2021-12-24
    • Add function ‘customtaxorder_is_get_orderby_set’.
    • Add filter ‘customtaxorder_is_get_orderby_set’ to optionally change the output of that function.
    • Fix warning on PHP 8.1.
    • Show taxonomy name as label on dashboard, if label is not set.
    • Remove old translation files from plugin, GlotPress should be used.
    • Do not show all submenu items on dashboard if they are over 100 (fix for Woo attributes).

20212 releases

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.3.1

    • 2021-11-26
    • Bring back removed code for orderby clause in ‘get_terms_orderby’ filter.
    • No need to check if function ‘current_user_can’ and ‘is_multisite’ exist.
    • Use functions like ‘esc_attr’, ‘esc_html’ and ‘esc_url’ when appropriate.

  2. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.3.0

    • 2021-02-23
    • Save settings per taxonomy with capability ‘manage_categories’, not ‘manage_options’.
    • Rewrite some code for settings pages.
    • Fix deprecated jQuery calls with WP 5.6 and jQuery 3.5.
    • Rename script.js to customtaxorder.js.

20205 releases

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.2.2

    • 2020-12-04
    • Fix category/tag edit screen, extra field.
    • Change ‘strval()’ to ‘(string)’.
    • Change ‘floatval()’ to ‘(float)’.

  2. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.2.1

    • 2020-07-07
    • More compatibility with WPML plugin.
    • Remove code to set taxonomy ‘link_category’ to public.

  3. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.2.0

    • 2020-07-06
    • Improve compatibility with WPML plugin.
    • Add function ‘customtaxorder_get_taxonomies()’ to remove duplicate code.
    • Be able to sort all taxonomies, public and non-public.
    • Use more esc_html functions.
    • Update About page.
    • Only load translations at the dashboard.

  4. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.1.0

    • 2020-03-23
    • Add term_order field to edit screen of terms (thanks @li-an).
    • Add order button for slug (thanks @eric3d).
    • Only load admin functions at dashboard.
    • Remove included es_ES po file, it is maintained in GlotPress.

  5. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.0.1

    • 2020-01-07
    • Add taxonomy parameter to get_term call for compatibility with WP 4.3.

20191 release

  1. Custom Taxonomy Order 3.0.0

    • 2019-12-21
    • Always overwrite orderby according to our settings.
    • Add option to sort by slug.
    • Support new wp_initialize_site action for multisite.
    • Simplify checking for Link Manager plugin.
    • Small fixes found by the phan tool.

Questions about Custom Taxonomy Order’s releases

What is the latest version of Custom Taxonomy Order?

4.0.2, released on Sep 28, 2026 (1 month ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.0 or later.

How often is Custom Taxonomy Order updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from December 2019.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Custom Taxonomy Order’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.