# How to reorder categories

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 19, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990 "2015-05-19T13:56:32Z")
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### Author: ![Ethosyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@Ethosyde](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethosyde)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990/1 "2015-05-19T13:56:32Z")

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How do you re-order categories? Like for example, if I have five categories and I want the bottom category to be the top one.

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### Author: ![lisajill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lisajill/32/32289_2.png) [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990/2 "2015-05-19T14:06:26Z")

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You have to go to the category, hit edit, go to the Settings tab and update the position to a number that places that category where you want.

It used to be possible to do this via drag and drop but that hasn’t seemed to work in a long time. ☹

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### Author: ![Ethosyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@Ethosyde](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethosyde)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990/3 "2015-05-19T14:13:41Z")

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Perfect. Thank you. This can be closed now. Thanks for quick reply.

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2015, 2:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reorder-categories/28990/4 "2015-05-19T14:18:23Z")

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