Title: Manually sorting posts within each category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Manually sorting posts within each category

 *  [jstening](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jstening/)
 * (@jstening)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-sorting-posts-within-each-category/)
 * I’m wondering if there is a way (natively or through a plugin/re-coding) to allow
   a post to appear in more than one category, but ALSO have its own position in
   each of the categories.
 * for example…
 * **Four different posts:**
    Post 1 Post 2 Post 3 Post 4
 * **Three categories:**
    Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 3
 * **Cat 1:**
    Post 2 Post 1 Post 3 _(In this category post 2 is in position one,
   post 1 is position two, post 3 is in position three)_
 * **Cat 2:**
    Post 4 Post 3 _(In this category post 4 is in position one and post
   3 is position two. Post 3 is also found in Cat 1)_
 * I can give each post a custom field called ‘position’ and sort the category by
   that value, but how can I make that field different for each category…??

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