# How to order Categories?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-order-categories/31212>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 20, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-order-categories/31212 "2015-07-20T14:49:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_mardlin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/john_mardlin/32/115622_2.png) [@john\_mardlin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/john_mardlin)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-order-categories/31212/10 "2015-09-11T02:56:43Z")

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How does it work with Subcategories? The presentation in the reorder dialogue is completely unrelated from the actual order and subcategory arrangement.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/7/17e8ff7275c472b5b2c546d9064a0841058e56b7.png)

It looks like they might be alphabetical by original name.

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