How to alter the order of custom form fields

WordPress doesn’t provide the hooks you want but it you are willing to use PHP’s output buffering and preg_replace() you can get it to work without hacking core. Here’s an answer that talks about the general technique required:

The hooks you’ll want to use are 'category_pre_add_form' for ob_start() and 'category_add_form' for ob_get_clean().

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