Wordpress: How to order categories
Posted by Ryan
December 22, 2004
Looking at my statistics I notice quite a few people find me looking for “Wordpress down down categories” or “Wordpress order categories”. Since the page they find is for creating a drop down box for your Wordpress categories I figured I might as well post how to sort your categories alphabetically in ascending or descending order.
Update: I’m such a dork. I should think through these things more before I go posting. If you really want to read my original solution, go ahead and click the link at the end of this to go to the next page. However, it’s much easier to just edit one little line in index.php:
Line #71 in the default template:
<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
Change that to:
<?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name’); ?>
If you want the list sorted descending:
<?php wp_list_cats(’sort_column=name&sort_order=desc’); ?>
That’s it! Read more about the wp_list_cats function on the Wordpress Wiki and what arguments you can pass to it.
Related: list_cats function on the Wordpress Wiki.
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