Best orderby plugins for WordPress
The most popular orderby plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerce leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Custom Post Order (400+) and cbnet Different Posts Per Page (300+). All 7 plugins tagged “orderby” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 orderby plugins
- 1.
Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerceThe most installed orderby plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 31 reviews, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 2.
Custom Post Order400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 17 years ago.
- 3.
cbnet Different Posts Per Page300+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 4.
Random Posts for Query Loop Block30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 10 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Default Post Sort10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
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Random AND Popular PostFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
All 7 plugins tagged “orderby”
Extra Product Sorting Options for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,132by SkyVerge8 months ago
Rename the default product sorting option, add up to 5 new sorting options including alphabetical and on-sale sorting, or remove core sorting options.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(31)
- Downloads
- 39/day
Custom Post Order
Up in the last 7 days:2#9,788by ctltwp17 years ago
descending , posts, categories, wordpress mu, wpmu Requires at least: 2.6 Tested up to: 2.7 Stable tag: trunk The plugin enables any user to modify t …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
cbnet Different Posts Per Page
Down in the last 7 days:19#10,510by Chip Bennett10 years ago
Customize the number of posts, orderby, and order parameters for all index pages (blog/home, search, category, tag, taxonomy, author, date, and archiv …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts for Query Loop Block
Up in the last 7 days:252#25,161by Abhay Rautela10 months ago
Adds "rand" to the REST API orderby options so the Query Loop block can use random post order safely without breaking the Site Editor preview.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Default Post Sort
Up in the last 7 days:4,400#42,309by Topher7 years ago
Provides a user interface for setting a default post order.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random AND Popular Post
Up in the last 7 days:3,956#68,618by themorshed6 years ago
This is a Lightweight WordPress plugin to Display Random posts, popular posts etc.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day