10 Best Simple Taxonomy Ordering Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Simple Taxonomy Ordering has 10,000+ 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 Simple Taxonomy Ordering
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Custom Meta Widget
Closest match5.0 (23) 7,000+ active installsClone of the standard Meta widget plus options to hide log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress.org/custom links.
Shares the admin, meta, simple tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 9, 2018.
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4.8 (20) 6,000+ active installsSort taxonomy terms, your way.
Shares the order, term tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated March 26, 2026.
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4.9 (76) 10,000+ active installsAllows you to merge terms, move terms between taxonomies, and set term parents, individually or in bulk.
Shares the admin, term tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated December 11, 2025.
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4.8 (20) 20,000+ active installsWhat this plugin does is to shows the IDs on admin section.
Shares the admin, simple tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated May 21, 2026.
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Advanced Custom Fields: Extended
4.8 (132) 100,000+ active installsAll-in-one enhancement suite that improves WordPress & Advanced Custom Fields.
Shares the admin, meta tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 11 days ago.
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4.4 (40) 9,000+ active installsAssociate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.
Shares the term tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since February 15, 2024.
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5.0 (24) 2,000+ active installsSwitch the taxonomy for all terms or only child terms of a specified parent term.
Shares the term tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated July 14, 2026.
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4.4 (23) 2,000+ active installsCreate custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.
Shares the term tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since July 14, 2016.
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4.6 (41) 4,000+ active installsEasily create an image gallery on your posts, pages or any custom post type
Shares the simple tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated May 29, 2026.
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5.0 (350) 100,000+ active installsExport WooCommerce orders to Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, PDF and HTML. Best free order export plugin for WooCommerce.
Shares the order tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated June 8, 2026.
Switching from Simple Taxonomy Ordering: common questions
What is the best alternative to Simple Taxonomy Ordering?
Custom Meta Widget is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 7,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Simple Taxonomy Ordering alternative has the most users?
Extended, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Simple Taxonomy Ordering alternative is rated highest?
Advanced Order Export For WooCommerce, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 350 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Simple Taxonomy Ordering 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 Simple Taxonomy Ordering 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 Simple Taxonomy Ordering 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
Custom Meta Widget is the closest match to Simple Taxonomy Ordering by the data we track, and Extended has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Extended shipped the most recent release, on August 27, 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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