WordPress Admin Drag-and-Drop

WP ships a complete jQuery UI drag-and-drop toolkit and the WAI-ARIA helper core itself uses to announce moves. You do not need SortableJS, dnd-kit, or Dragula for an admin UI. The blocker isn't the API — it's that nobody documents which primitive matches which UX a plugin developer actually wants to build. This skill is that mapping.

When to use this skill

Trigger when ANY of the following is true:

• A plugin admin page needs drag-to-reorder for ANY list of items — repeater rows, custom builder cards, rule-priority lists, sortable form fields, custom taxonomy term order, FAQ entries, pricing tiers, notification levels.
• The user wants a palette of available items that get dragged into a drop zone — block-library-like UIs, condition builders, action chains.
• The user wants a kanban-style board, or any "move card between columns" UX.
• The user asks for "menu-style" or "parent/child" drag — nested trees with indentation.
• The user is reaching for an external D&D library for admin UI when WP's bundled primitives would do.
• Code references jquery-ui-sortable, jquery-ui-draggable, jquery-ui-droppable, jquery-touch-punch, connectWith, connectToSortable.

Proof this is reusable: where core itself runs these primitives

Same three jQuery UI plugins, four wildly different UXes. If your plugin scenario looks like ANY of these, the same toolkit works for you.