# Reorder categories doesn't recognize subcategory order

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**Created:** [2017 年 12 月 2 日午前 12:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reorder-categories-doesnt-recognize-subcategory-order/75205 "2017-12-02T00:00:31Z")\
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I’ve got a site with a bunch of categories and lots of subcategories sorted in alpha (I had the import script do that). We added a new subcat and needed to put it in the right place.

I can’t find the reorder categories hamburger on a subcategory. I searched here and found that the recorder categories feature had been removed ([https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-reorder-categories-wrench-missing/20061](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-reorder-categories-wrench-missing/20061) should probably be archived).

**Then** I noticed that there is a Reorder categories on `/categories`. “Aha!” thought I. But when I clicked it, it just put all of the categories in what appeared to be a random order (but I guess is probably latest?), and all of the subcategories were all together, not sorted under their categories as I expected.

I guess this is a really hard interface to get right.

And shouldn’t I be able to create a sub-category from the category under which I want to put it? It’s confusing to have to go to /categories to be able to create a subcategory. Perhaps that’s why I’m confused every time.

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