Simple Custom Post Order vs UpdraftPlus

Simple Custom Post Order is the easiest way to manually sort your WordPress content using drag-and-drop functionality. Whether you’re managing blog posts, portfolio items, WooCommerce products, team members, testimonials, or any custom post type, this plugin gives you complete control over your content order. Why Choose Simple Custom Post Order? Zero Configuration – Works instantly after activation Drag & Drop Interface – Intuitive sorting directly in your admin post lists Universal Compatibility – Works with any post type and taxonomy Lightweight & Fast – No bloat, minimal impact on site performance Modern & Dependency-Free – Vanilla JavaScript drag-and-drop (no jQuery UI) with touch and full keyboard support Reliable Saving – Robust AJAX saving that works behind reverse proxies, custom ports, and HTTPS setups Developer Friendly – Clean code with action hooks for customization Key Features Sort Any Content Type Posts – Reorder your blog posts in any sequence you prefer Pages – Organize pages beyond alphabetical or date order Custom Post Types – Perfect for portfolios, team members, testimonials, products, events, FAQs, services, and more WooCommerce Products – Manually sort products in your shop Taxonomies – Reorder categories, tags, and custom taxonomies Intuitive Admin Interface Smooth drag-and-drop sorting directly in the WordPress post list table Touch-friendly — press, hold, and drag to reorder on phones and tablets Fully keyboard accessible — tab to a row, then use Space and the arrow keys to reorder, with screen-reader announcements Clear save feedback — a “Saving… / Order saved” status appears as you sort Optional drag handle — show a grip icon on hover, or keep rows draggable from anywhere Changes saved automatically via AJAX – no page refresh needed Works seamlessly with the default WordPress admin experience Smart Query Integration Automatically applies custom order to front-end queries Respects custom orderby parameters when explicitly set Does not interfere with search results (maintains relevance sorting) Compatible with get_posts(), WP_Query, and standard loops Reset & Restore One-click reset to restore default ordering Reset individual post types without affecting others Useful when you need to start fresh with your content organization Perfect For Bloggers – Feature important posts at the top of your blog Business Websites – Showcase key services or team members first Portfolio Sites – Display your best work in a specific order Online Stores – Highlight featured or seasonal products Membership Sites – Organize course content or resources News Sites – Pin important stories or announcements Event Websites – Arrange events in your preferred sequence Documentation Sites – Structure help articles logically Use Cases Portfolio Management Arrange your portfolio items to showcase your best work first, group similar projects together, or create a visual narrative of your creative journey. Team Page Organization Display team members by hierarchy, department, or seniority rather than by when they were added to the system. Product Highlighting Feature seasonal items, bestsellers, or new arrivals at the top of your WooCommerce shop without relying solely on sorting by date or price. Content Curation Create curated reading lists by manually ordering posts in the exact sequence you want readers to discover them. FAQ Organization Sort frequently asked questions by importance or topic, ensuring the most relevant questions appear first. Testimonial Display Show your most compelling testimonials first to maximize their impact on potential customers. Developer Features Action Hooks scp_update_menu_order – Fires after post order is updated scp_update_menu_order_tags – Fires after taxonomy term order is updated Filter Hooks scpo_post_types_args – Modify which post types appear in settings scpo_use_sortablejs – Force the drag engine in code (overrides the setting); return true for the modern SortableJS engine or false for the classic jQuery UI sorter scpo_capability – Change the capability required to reorder (default edit_posts) Drag & Drop Engine Choose between the modern, dependency-free SortableJS engine (default) and the classic jQuery UI sorter under Settings > SCPOrder. The classic engine remains fully supported as a fallback. Advanced View Mode Enable the advanced view in settings to see all registered post types, including those normally hidden from the admin menu. Supported Post Types Simple Custom Post Order works with: WordPress Posts WordPress Pages WooCommerce Products Easy Digital Downloads Products Portfolio items (Jetpack, custom) Team member post types Testimonial post types Event post types (The Events Calendar, etc.) FAQ post types Any custom post type with show_ui enabled Supported Taxonomies Categories Tags WooCommerce Product Categories WooCommerce Product Tags Custom taxonomies with show_ui enabled How It Works Install & Activate – Install the plugin from WordPress.org or upload manually Configure – Go to Settings > SCPOrder and select which post types and taxonomies to enable Reorder – Visit any enabled post type list and drag items to reorder Done – Your custom order is automatically applied everywhere on your site The plugin uses WordPress’s native menu_order field for posts and pages, and adds a term_order column for taxonomy terms. This approach ensures compatibility and data persistence. Performance Optimized Targeted cache invalidation (only clears cache for modified items) Efficient database queries using prepared statements Scripts loaded only on relevant admin pages No front-end performance impact Security First All database queries use prepared statements AJAX requests protected with nonce verification Capability checks ensure only authorized users can reorder Input sanitization on all user data Additional Information Support For support questions, please use the WordPress.org support forum. Bug Reports Report bugs on our GitHub repository. Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please submit pull requests to our GitHub repository. Credits This plugin is made with love by the team at Colorlib.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. 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