# Reorder categories doesn't recognize subcategory order

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2 ديسمبر 2017، 12:00ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reorder-categories-doesnt-recognize-subcategory-order/75205 "2017-12-02T00:00:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [2 ديسمبر 2017، 3:14ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reorder-categories-doesnt-recognize-subcategory-order/75205/7 "2017-12-02T03:14:44Z")

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Bump into this a lot of times for large category lists. When the number gets more than 30-40, it is really a hassle to manage. And the ui is very very easy to screw up (I think there are some subtle bugs).

I make it a practice of always putting a category into the right order as soon as it is created. Doing it in bulk afterwards is a lot of pain and risks. But of course @pfaffman is bulk loading an entire site so this won’t work for him.

At lesst being able to move a parent category as a single block wirh its children in the sorting will solve most of the usage prob.

Thus: Recorder a leaf category: Just move up/down. Doesn’t go out of parent boundary.

Recorder a parent category: The whole tree moves up/down preserving children order.

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