Title: get_categories function
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# get_categories function

 *  [vir27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vir27/)
 * (@vir27)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get_categories-function-1/)
 * Hi, in get_categories function you have written following for order by parameters
 * _ orderby
    (string) Sort categories alphabetically or by unique category ID. 
   The default is sort by Category ID. Valid values:  id name – default slug count
   term_group
 * in one line you have said that the default is sort by category and in below that
   you have stated name as default. i can’t understand this thing. Is it mistake?

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