# Should the order of categories in every place being the same?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [12 Marzo 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665 "2014-03-12T11:17:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@nXqd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nXqd)
#### Post date: [12 Marzo 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/1 "2014-03-12T11:17:54Z")
I was hesitate to make this feature request. So I try to use the categories in every place [top left corner, in category list and category dropdown] and really look into how i use. I find that it’d be nice if we have the categories dropdown on top left and the one we choose when creating post if they share the same order in categories page.
And further more, should we make the category on top left to be select2 instead of normal dropdown. I find select2 is really awesome and convenience.
Cheers !
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12 Marzo 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/2 "2014-03-12T22:31:27Z")
We want to make categories display more consistent … on our roadmap for 1.0
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13 Marzo 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/3 "2014-03-13T00:35:43Z")
Note that there are two orders of category, and this at least is intentional:
1. order for browsing topics
2. order for creating topic
In case #2, that should be ordered by size, aka **number of topics in the category** – you want people putting topics in the most common categories, not in random places.
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### Author:  [@nXqd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nXqd)
#### Post date: [13 Marzo 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/4 "2014-03-13T18:46:34Z")
love the idea of case #2 you described. I’m looking forward to it.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [13 Marzo 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/5 "2014-03-13T21:04:26Z")
> [@nXqd](#):
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> love the idea of case #2 you described. I’m looking forward to it.
That’s already the case. It’s #1 that’s not fully implemented.
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### Author:  [@DanaRelayr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DanaRelayr)
#### Post date: [29 Ottobre 2014, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/6 "2014-10-29T11:21:44Z")
Well I cannot seem to create a new topic (got a 403 Forbidden error) so reviving this topic…
My question is:
Is it possible to place a category at the very top of the list without it being the most recently updated one?
Is there a place where I could customize the oder of categories?
Thank you!
Dana
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 Dicembre 2025, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-the-order-of-categories-in-every-place-being-the-same/13665/7 "2025-12-04T11:09:27Z")