diff --git a/PLUGINS.md b/PLUGINS.md
index f5de7c9..61c4724 100644
--- a/PLUGINS.md
+++ b/PLUGINS.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Location                        | Contains
 `./.git-semver/plugins`         | Project plugins (added and committed) which run on just the current git project
 `${HOME}/.git-semver/plugins/`  | User plugins which run on all git projects                
 
-Plugin can stop a tag being generated (for example if a version file does not exist).
+Plugins are executed orderedly, so you can number-prefix them to ensure execution order. Number prefixed plugins will run before anything else, and they will be executed from lower to higher. Plugins can also stop a tag being generated (for example if a version file does not exist).
 
 See [Contributing](#contributing) for detail on creating a plugin or take a look at the [example plugin] or any of the [real plugins](#plugins).
 
diff --git a/git-semver.sh b/git-semver.sh
index 51cbfc6..8d85209 100755
--- a/git-semver.sh
+++ b/git-semver.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,15 @@ plugin-list() {
         plugin_dir="${dirs[${i}]}/.git-semver/plugins"
         if [ -d "${plugin_dir}" ]
         then
-            find "${plugin_dir}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec echo "${plugin_type},{}" \;
+            plugins=()
+            for plugin in $(find "${plugin_dir}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec basename {} \; | grep "^[0-9]" | LC_ALL="C" sort -g)
+            do
+                echo "${plugin_type},${plugin_dir}/${plugin}"
+            done
+            for plugin in $(find "${plugin_dir}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec basename {} \; | grep "^[^0-9]" | LC_ALL="C" sort -g)
+            do
+                echo "${plugin_type},${plugin_dir}/${plugin}"
+            done
         fi
     done
 }