Abstract. Some well known results on ordered semigroups are examined in case of ordered hypersemigroups. Following the paper in Semigroup Forum 44 (1992), 341-346, we prove the following: The ideals of an ordered hypergroupoid H are idempotent if and only if for any two ideals A and B of H, we have A ∩ B = (A * B]. Let now H be an ordered hypersemigroup. Then, the ideals of H are idempotent if and only if H is semisimple. The ideals of H are weakly prime if and only if they are idempotent and they form a chain. The ideals of H are prime if and only if they form a chain and H is intra-regular. The paper serves as an example to show how we pass from ordered semigroups to ordered hypersemigroups.