WP Category Sort
by Lovinnagi · Uncategorized
The WP Category Sort plugin allows you to easily reorder your categories the way you want via drag and drop.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
400+
≈490 estimated
Momentum
—
no download trend yet
Biggest opportunity: “categories sort”, “category order” and “taxonomy order” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,736 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →6.6%
of downloads still active
At least 400 of 6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19.
Details
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 1793 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1793 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| categories sort your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| category order your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| order category your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| taxonomy order your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| terms order your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “categories sort”, “category order” and “taxonomy order” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 131 · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
4.9y ago
latest release · v2.0.3 · 3 Dec 2021
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 46 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 500.
Install history since 20 May 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ dinesh2249.1y ago
Awesome, It does what I exactly want. Thank you! This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by dinesh224.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.3
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "The WP Category Sort plugin allows you to easily reorder your categories the way you want via drag and drop."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 108 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("categories sort", "category order", "order category", "taxonomy order", "terms order" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-09-15 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-09-13 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-09-10 500+ → 400+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2026-09-02 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-09-01 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-08-30 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-08-29 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order 500K+ installs · 4.5★ · 4 shared tags A -
Custom Taxonomy Order 50K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Reshuffle – Change Post Order, Product Order, Taxonomy Order 70+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
WP Sort Order 6K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A - P Post Terms Order – per Post based 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
- T Terms Order WP – Categories And Taxonomies Order Plugin 800+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag C
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