10 Best Real Custom Post Order Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Real Custom Post Order has 8,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Real Custom Post Order
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Post Snippets – Custom WordPress Code Snippets Customizer
4.6 (93) 20,000+ active installsCreate WordPress custom snippets shortcodes and reusable content and insert them in into your posts and pages.
About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
- 2
4.8 (43) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
About a quarter of the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
- 3
4.8 (572) 300,000+ active installsEasily reorder posts, pages, custom post types, and taxonomies with intuitive drag-and-drop sorting in the WordPress admin.
Shares the custom post order tag on WordPress.org. About 38 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
- 4
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed – Simple Social Feeds for WordPress
4.7 (1,508) 200,000+ active installsFormerly "Custom Facebook Feed". Display completely customizable Facebook feeds of a Facebook page. Supports Facebook oEmbeds.
About 25 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
- 5
Elementor
Paid version availableElementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder
4.5 (7,297) 10 million+ active installsThe Elementor Website Builder has it all: drag and drop page builder, Atomic Editor, pixel perfect design, global and reusable style systems, mobile r …
About 1,250 times the installs, last updated 7 days ago.
- 6
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
4.8 (611) 600,000+ active installsElementor templates, Header footer builder, Elementor Post Grid, Woocommerce Grid builder, Slider, Forms, Gallery, Nav menu addons, Elementor widgets.
About 75 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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4.4 (140) 400,000+ active installsIntuitively reorder Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Taxonomies, and Sites with a simple drag-and-drop interface.
Shares the custom post type order tag on WordPress.org. About 50 times the installs, last updated September 16, 2025.
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4.0 (24) 30,000+ active installsThe Custom Field Template plugin extends the functionality of custom fields.
About 3.8 times the installs, last updated 27 days ago.
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Contextual Related Posts
Paid version available4.8 (201) 50,000+ active installsKeep visitors on your site longer with intelligent, fast-loading, contextually related posts. Block, shortcode, custom post type and widget ready.
About 6.3 times the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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4.7 (160) 30,000+ active installsWith WP Custom Admin Interface you can easily customise the WordPress admin and login interfaces.
About 3.8 times the installs, last updated February 10, 2026.
Switching from Real Custom Post Order: common questions
What is the best alternative to Real Custom Post Order?
Post Snippets is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Real Custom Post Order alternative has the most users?
Elementor, with 10 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Real Custom Post Order alternative is rated highest?
Royal Addons for Elementor, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 611 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Real Custom Post Order alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Real Custom Post Order score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Real Custom Post Order on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Post Snippets is the closest match to Real Custom Post Order by the data we track, and Elementor has the widest reach with 10 million+ active installs. Contextual Related Posts shipped the most recent release, on September 5, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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