Title: Category widget
Last modified: June 24, 2020

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# Category widget

 *  [Andrew Leonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewleonard/)
 * (@andrewleonard)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-widget-19/)
 * I have given my pages categories and I am using the category widget
    The category
   widget shows up fine but if I click on “Dryopteridaceae” I get 8 pages but they
   are not dsplayed in alphabetic order Can I do something to change the default
   order?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcategory-widget-19%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [nsblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsblue/)
 * (@nsblue)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-widget-19/#post-13633052)
 * By default, all pages are given the order under Attributes of each page, placing
   1- whatever, imputing the number the order you want. This is at the right had
   side of the post by clicking the cog wheel and under attributes.
    If you haven’t
   placed that order while making pages, it can be time consuming to do, so there
   is a plug in to be able to drop n drag the order. [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-ordering/)
   [https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/simple-page-ordering-how-to-organize-wordpress-pages-with-drag-drop/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/simple-page-ordering-how-to-organize-wordpress-pages-with-drag-drop/)
 * You sure do have a ton of pages and categories. In looking at them, it sure was
   overwhelming.
 * I know it took a bit for me to find a way to organize my files of recipes, poems
   etc and searched the plug in pages to find a method that would help organize 
   them all. I know I used a plug in that gave me a widget that listed the pages
   within a category in a widget which helped with my recipes page. That was Category
   Posts in Custom Menu [https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-posts-in-custom-menu/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-posts-in-custom-menu/)
 * I have a ton of recipes and to organize them all into categories and recipes 
   i used this plug on one of my sites ex [https://melsgraphics.com/category/recipes/](https://melsgraphics.com/category/recipes/)
   I have all categories in a menu and when clicked on the category pops up and 
   then I had a menu for that category of all posts in that category. My recipes
   are my blog. But I was able to use a category for poetry and make a menu of all
   poems in a menu for that page too.
 * Unsure if this will help…

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