How to you put categories in the order you want to?

Could you post a link to your website? And explain in which order you do want them. Basically you need to edit wp_list_categories() This has three options: order alphabetically, by the category id or by the number of posts in that category. If none of those options is what you want you will need to write a custom function.

If those ‘orderby’ parameters of the template tag, wp_list_categories(), don’t work for you, try these plugins:

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/order-categories/
tag: order-categories

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/my-category-order/
tag: my-category-order

Here is what I’ve done to organize my categories in my subnav bar:

In header.php find this or something similar to it:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li=&depth=4'); ?>

Now replace “name” with “slug”

Now when you create your categories you use numbers to create the slugs for them. For instance, on my page ( you can see on https://sdhumanist.org ) my slug for News is 1news. Slug for events is 2events and so on.

Hope that helped!