Title: Categories in Hierarchical Order Author: Amit Sonkhiya Published: 13 June 2014 Last modified: 10 December 2020 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest three major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/categories-in-hierarchical-order.svg) # Categories in Hierarchical Order By [Amit Sonkhiya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitaits/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order.1.3.1.zip) * [Details](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/#description) * [Reviews](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/#reviews) * [Installation](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/#installation) * [Development](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/) ## Description Gutenberg Editor already maintains the parent-child relationship when you select a category. So the child doesn’t move at the top in the category meta box. So this plugin isn’t required if you’re using the Gutenberg Editor. **Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin applies to WordPress Classic Post Editor only.** This plugin contains functionality to let you maintain default hierarchical order of categories when you select and save them for a post in your WordPress Admin Classic Post Editor. The selected category/categories, to which a post belongs, are by default pushed at the top in the Category tab while saving the post. Whereas activating Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin will keep the position of selected category/categories unchanged as per their parent/child relationship. For support, use support page available here or visit [the page](https://www.astech.solutions/wordpress-javascript-jquery-plugins/categories-hierarchical-order/) at our official website. A [GitHub repo](https://github.com/as-tx/categories-hierarchical-order) is also there to post issues, contribution and feature requests. ## Screenshots [⌊WordPress default category order⌉⌊WordPress default category order⌉[ WordPress default category order [⌊Category hierarchy maintained by the plugin⌉⌊Category hierarchy maintained by the plugin⌉[ Category hierarchy maintained by the plugin ## Installation This section describes how to install the Plugin and get it working. e.g. 1. Install Categories in Hierarchical Order plugin either via the WordPress.org plugin directory or by uploading the categories-in-hierarchical-order folder to `/wp-content/ plugins/` directory at your server 2. Activate the Plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 3. You are ready ## FAQ ### Is this plugin compatible with custom taxonomies? Yes, this plugin supports custom taxonomy ### Is there any setting option with this plugin? No, this plugin hasn’t any setting ### Does the plugin work on Gutenberg Editor too? No. This is for Classic Editor only. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fe0f16bf518851be929bae980109f4e1aa2927f96e9dff1921395a9d7a9a035c? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Ótimo Plugin, Parabéns!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/otimo-plugin-parabens-4/)󠁿 [fabricio121](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabricio121/) 11 April 2022 Faz 1 ano que esse plugin não recebeu uma atualização, e o plugin pode ficar vulnerável. Não abandone este plugin , pois ele é ótimo e ajuda em muito. obrogado por ele! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1ff1d78fad4e900d9ea9f271e5fc7f379d774ad2fb8ad39ada74705b5893a789? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Should be standard in WordPress. Easy and works great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/should-be-standard-in-wordpress-easy-and-works-great/)󠁿 [studioram](https://profiles.wordpress.org/studioram/) 8 November 2019 Excactly waht I needed! Unfortuanally WordPress still order categeries alphabatical. This plugin orders them hierarchical. Easy in use! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a2ba442ff12adef5b5b870db8448ffeb02889da3287d5741f49fcf69f51eb0e5? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-6250/)󠁿 [Joshaw](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joshaw/) 19 July 2019 Does the trick perfectly, thanks! 🙂 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f8f67bb1a6b2e79625e18ca36f5f1ccd21cc20187700c52551dad43d4d0d1afd? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Indispensable for Hierarchical Categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/indispensable-for-hierarchical-categories/)󠁿 [sharonvillines](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sharonvillines/) 6 March 2019 Don't understand why this plug-in doesn't have more reviews. It's one of the first I install. I have sites with a subject category and then a subject-date category. this allows me to keep the dates with the categories without naming them with both the category and the date. Otherwise, I would see 1978 chosen but not be able to check that I had chosen photos>1978 or notes>1978. Repeating the category name with every date would add twice the number of terms in far too many places. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/26c558e0129333b2e28a765c2ceb959bde4e2b41ac8e34fa50aeb8a80689d8b5? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Brilliant!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brilliant-992/)󠁿 [Andrew Schultz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tabboy/) 26 July 2018 Why is this not part of the WordPress core yet? This plugin fixed my ugly looking category structure! Thanks guys! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8006731d7ac58d1b431a0f826fa2ae72ca8552043e1e46ac7220d89ed5716c3b? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-4634/)󠁿 [swinggraphics](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swinggraphics/) 12 December 2017 Perfect [ Read all 14 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/) ## Contributors and Developers “Categories in Hierarchical Order” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Amit Sonkhiya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitaits/) * [ K.K.Agarwal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kka284556/) [Translate “Categories in Hierarchical Order” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/categories-in-hierarchical-order/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/categories-in-hierarchical-order/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/categories-in-hierarchical-order/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/categories-in-hierarchical-order/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Change Log #### 1.3.1 * Security improvement by blocking direct file access #### 1.3 * GitHub and support links updated * Tested up to WordPress version 5.6 with Classic Editor #### 1.2 * Changed the Class constructor for compatibility to PHP 7 #### 1.1 * Tested to support latest WordPress version #### 1.0 * Maintain category hierarchical order ## Meta * Version **1.3.1** * Last updated **6 years ago** * Active installations **2,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **5.6.22** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/) * Tags * [category](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[custom taxonomy](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-taxonomy/) [hierarchy](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hierarchy/)[order](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/order/) [taxonomy](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/) * [Advanced View](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/categories-in-hierarchical-order/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 14 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/categories-in-hierarchical-order/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Amit Sonkhiya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitaits/) * [ K.K.Agarwal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kka284556/) ## Support Got something to say? 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