Title: Category display sequence
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Category display sequence

 *  [bellingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bellingham/)
 * (@bellingham)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-display-sequence/)
 * How do I change the sequence in which categories are listed on the page?
 * From catagory-template.php I’m looking at:
 * function wp_list_categories( $args = ” ) {
    $defaults = array( ‘show_option_all’
   => ”, ‘orderby’ => ‘name’,
 * where ‘orderby’ changes the sequence. According to Codex you can order by name,
   ID, or slug, but none of these seem to work.
 * I appreciate your help

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 * Last reply from: [bellingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bellingham/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-display-sequence/)
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