Title: custom sort the links that appear in the Category drop down
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# custom sort the links that appear in the Category drop down

 *  [da](https://wordpress.org/support/users/da/)
 * (@da)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sort/)
 * Is it possible to custom sort the links that appear in the Category drop down
   menu list?
 * thanks,
    david

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sort/#post-1229751)
 * The [template tag](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags), [wp_dropdown_categories()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories),
   only offers ID or name for orderby choices.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sort/#post-1229756)
 * Yes. See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_dropdown_categories)

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