Title: Category View Specific Order
Last modified: July 27, 2017

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# Category View Specific Order

 *  Resolved [chocmanwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chocmanwp/)
 * (@chocmanwp)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-view-specific-order/)
 * I know you can specify the order of the category as it’s shown on the page via
   settings > ordering > sort categories (Name, FAQ count or slug).
 * How do you display the categories in a *specific* order that isn’t alphabetical
   ie name or by count. Isn’t the category slug just a repetition of the category
   name?
 * Let’s say you’ve three categories – Apple, Pears and Oranges – and you want them
   displayed in this order permanently:
 * Pears
    Apples Oranges
 * How is this achieved?
 * Again, thanks in advice to the experts out there!

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 *  [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
 * (@etoilewebdesign)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-view-specific-order/#post-9357663)
 * Hi Chocmanwp,
 * There is no way to set categories in custom order. You can sort categories either
   in ascending or descending order. By selecting “Sort Categories Ordering” option
   but you can use on which basic categories are sorted. It is either Name, Slug,
   or number of FAQs in category. Category slug is auto-generated when you add categories.
   But, you can change slug whatever you like. The “slug” is the URL-friendly version
   of the name. It is usually all lowercase and contains only letters, numbers, 
   and hyphens. That is used to create permalink for each post. So, you can set 
   slug to something else but related to them for Pears, Apples, Oranges so it can
   be sorted by slug ascending or descending order.
 *  Thread Starter [chocmanwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chocmanwp/)
 * (@chocmanwp)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-view-specific-order/#post-9357945)
 * Great, many thanks, I’ll just change the category slug so I can sort in the order
   required. I’m not bothered about a URL for each FAQ. Thank you again.

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