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Term Menu Order

by Yoast · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 6 other plugins · 13.2M+ installs across the portfolio →

Creates a 'menu_order' column to specify term order, allowing theme and plugin developers to sort term by menu order.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5170 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+53% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

66

now · peak 3.1K

6630d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Term Menu Order · #10322 you Taxonomy Toolbox · #19012 HTML Import 2 · #3088 Beautiful taxonomy f · #4371

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

220per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

14.2y ago

latest release · v0.4

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4 · 14.2y ago3.1.2 · 14.8y ago0.3 · 14.8y ago0.2 · 15.6y ago0.1.3 · 15.7y ago0.1.2 · 15.7y ago0.1 · 15.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.4 95%
v0.2 5.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈350

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,395 observations

300Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
0.4
Last updated
14.2y ago
Added
2010-12-17 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. tjcafferkey
    11.9y ago

    Brilliant, simple plugin. No unwanted code or functionality. Did exactly what I wanted.

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  2. iLucato
    12.7y ago

    I was looking for this plug-in to try to solve a problem with a multi-language site to get to sort the menu in one order in one language and in other order for other language. This plug-in didn’t solved it due the order field doesn’t accept the quick-tag or tags from translators plug-ins such as xLanguage, qTranslator. So, here is a suggestion: The order input field would accept the quick-tag or regular-tags from qTranslator for example, so I would set in de field: Quick tag: [:en]3[pt:8] Regural-tag: <!–:en–>3<!–:–><!–:pt–>8<!–:–> So, when using the site in English the menu item would be in order 3, or in Portuguese in the order 8. Well, just a suggestion. Have a great week.

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  3. Jonathan Wold
    13.3y ago

    A simple, easy-to-implement plugin that does exactly what it says and stays out the way. Great work guys.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-05-26 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-23 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-22 400+ → 300+ down after 313 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-13 500+ → 400+ down after 259 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-27 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-10-26 500+ → 600+ up after 5 days in tier
  7. 2024-10-21 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-10-20 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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