# Categories and dropdown menus ordering
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-and-dropdown-menus-ordering/26253
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 12, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-and-dropdown-menus-ordering/26253 "2015-03-12T08:15:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Maestra\_Powers](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maestra_Powers)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-and-dropdown-menus-ordering/26253/1 "2015-03-12T08:15:29Z")
Just moved to Discourse and I want to use fixed categories ordering for now to not make our new forum look too unusual for users. Reordering is pain! You should add “drag&drop to reorder” feature, sinse Discourse positions itself as easy to use furum.
Also, why this dropdown is not in alphabetical or custom order? It should be alphabetical, I think.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-and-dropdown-menus-ordering/26253/2 "2015-03-12T08:36:38Z")
Dozens of existing topics on this, but right now we have a mixture of frequency ordering (drop-downs) and hard-coded number ordering, on the `/category` landing page.
I think as the # of topics gets larger it should always be a search box, anyway – nobody’s going to scroll through 50+ categories. You probably shouldn’t even _have_ 50 categories, if you have a site you want people to actually visit and understand..
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2015, 8:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/categories-and-dropdown-menus-ordering/26253/3 "2015-03-12T08:36:43Z")