Sorting Categories! Please

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  indecline2013 · Member · Jan 9, 2014 at 5:25 pm

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  Hi.

  I recently bought the Traveler Theme. unfortunately All my categories are in the wrong order. I spent some time looking for a fix, but so far, as I understand it, this is not possible.

  My question is:
  1) how are the categories sorted by wordpress? even if I call them 1.category, 2.category and so on they are not in that order, so alphabetical is not the way they are sorted.
  2) There MUST be some way to fix this. Why cant we sort the categories? This is kind of idiotic. Are there any plans to change this

  thanks for your help.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 6:08 pm

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  Hello there,
  Have you read the support documentation here?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/

  Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  (1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
  (2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.

  Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.

  By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published posts display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows.

  Though there is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts (not pages) http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/ and we cannot post to more than that one page, we can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page.

  This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

  Create a custom menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu
  Add dynamic categories and sub-categories pages to it
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-category-pages
  Create order and sub-menus (dropdowns)
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus

  Here’s a link to my post on this http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/25/create-a-wordpress-website-step-by-step/

  There are many common errors, misunderstandings and misconceptions when creating custom menus and there are some tweaks you can use to improve your custom menu as well.
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/custom-menus/

  Also note Traveler is a premium theme part of what you purchased is support direct from the theme’s designer. The person with the username account who purchased the theme can post to the Premium Theme Support forum for the theme to get help with it http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/traveler in the Premium Theme Support forum.
  Note: http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/premium-themes/#premium-theme-support

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  justpi · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 8:28 pm

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  The blog linked to your username is using 2014. What’s the URL of the blog in question?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jan 10, 2014 at 8:31 pm

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  I don’t see a blog linked to the username account above.
  http://indecline2013.wordpress.com doesn’t exist