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1. wildbug
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   In my theme settings, I get to specify which categories appear however they are displaying alphabetically rather than the order I input them. What can I do to this query to display categories as they are input? Thank you!

   query_posts('showposts=' . fs_settings('newsleft_category_length') . '&cat='.$category->cat_ID);

2. richarduk
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   orderby=menu_order

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts

3. wildbug
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thank you so much, but can you show me how to put it in my query code...I cannot figure that out. THANKS!!

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   query_posts('orderby=menu_order&order=ASC&showposts=' . fs_settings('newsleft_category_length') . '&cat='.$category->cat_ID);

   See query_posts() for other arguments

5. wildbug
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thank you so much. Only I realized that I was actually wanting the categories to be listed by menu rather than the posts. I tried applying that code to the category code but it didn't work. Do you have any ideas how to do that? I REALLY appreciate it.

   Here is the current code:

   <?php
   		$categories = get_categories('hide_empty=1&include=' . fs_settings('resourcesleft_categories'));
   		foreach ($categories as $category) :
   		query_posts('showposts=' . fs_settings('resourcesleft_category_length') . '&cat='.$category->cat_ID);
   		if (have_posts()) : $count = 0;
   		?>

   And here is what I tried that did not work:

   <?php
   		$categories = get_categories('hide_empty=1&orderby=menu_order&order=ASC&include=' . fs_settings('resourcesleft_categories'));
   		foreach ($categories as $category) :
   		query_posts('showposts=' . fs_settings('resourcesleft_category_length') . '&cat='.$category->cat_ID);
   		if (have_posts()) : $count = 0;
   		?>

6. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I believe get_categories doesn't allow a sort by menu_order.

7. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Hi,

   Check with these plugins:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-category-order/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/order-categories/

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

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