[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #30244: Category / Taxonomy Term "Menu Order"

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#30244: Category / Taxonomy Term "Menu Order"
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 Reporter:  Howdy_McGee  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:
Component:  Taxonomy     |     Version:  4.0
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 A couple thoughts:

 - There's a 'term_order' field in `wp_term_relationships`. See #5857
 [6851]. Because this is stored in the relationships table, it's designed
 for use with reference to a specific item. You could hack together
 something that would use this field to make the terms themselves
 orderable, though it would be clumsy. (For one thing, it'd only be
 possible for a term to have an order if it were attached to at least one
 object.)
 - We can't repurpose 'term_group'. Core may not use it, but surely plugins
 do.
 - If we had termmeta, we could do this without a schema change (wouldn't
 scale very well, but it probably wouldn't matter in most cases). See
 #10142.
 - Term order is likely only useful in a very small subset of cases. We
 sorta deepmhasize menu_order in the post/page interface, and IMO the use
 cases there are more obvious, so I assume we'd want something even less
 obtrusive. This kinda makes me think this'd be better suited for a plugin,
 though without termmeta, it's not super obvious how the plugin would work.

 I'm going to close this as maybelater, because I don't see any realistic
 progress on this front until we get termmeta in place, at which point
 maybe we can talk about a feature plugin that fleshes out all pieces of
 the term_order UI.

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