Title: New Plugin: Explicit Category Sort
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# New Plugin: Explicit Category Sort

 *  [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/)
 * In response to this thread:
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=23855](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=23855)
 * Explicit Category Sort sorts category list in sidebar according to user-defined
   list. Ex: `$mylist = "news,sports,trips,ship modelling"`.
 * Download [here](http://pericat.ca/downloads/perisort.phps). Drop in plugins folder.
   Change $mylist to suit yourself; bearing in mind that the category items must
   be separated by commas, and since they can contain spaces, don’t put any extra
   spaces in the list.

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 *  [marsroy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marsroy/)
 * (@marsroy)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-148901)
 * Your plugin works good with my blog, thanks a lot, pericat! However, when actived,
   it hides all sub-categoriesas… 🙁 Is this what you have mentioned in the Known
   Issues?
    I used to set ‘hierarchical’ to TURE in the tag ‘list_cats’. Does your
   plugin ignore (or modify, maybe ) this parameter? Would u pls tell me how to 
   fix this little problem? TKS!
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-148910)
 * Yup, that’s it. It’s not designed to handle hierarchical *display*, though it
   will list out all the categories you tell it to, in whatever order you write 
   them down.
 * Hierarchical display involves capturing first, the condition of a category’s 
   being a child, and then, if the list is to be displayed as a list, including 
   the extra `<ul>`‘s and `<li>`‘s and so forth. And then there’s the situation 
   where it’s a child of a child…
 * So I just gave all that a miss for this go-round. I’ll make a note to look into
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-148976)
 * I’ve revised the plugin to handle hierarchical displays, and made a few other
   changes to avoid problems when the user has, for instance, a category named “
   News” and another named something like “WordPress News”.
 * Instructions, notes, etc. written up in comments. Please let me know if this 
   suits.
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149077)
 * Now creates valid XHTML. (cough)
 *  [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149099)
 * I do love this plugin. Works as advertised. However there is one case which it
   would be nice if it handled — which is more than two levels of categories, ie
   A1,B1,C1,B2,C2. Since after C1 I want to go back up one level but not yet TOP,
   I don’t think I can do this……
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149100)
 * You should be able to. The ‘child’ designation has nothing to do with how you’ve
   built your categories in the admin panel. It’s purely a display thing. Put a ‘
   BACKUP’ between C1 and B2 and B2 will be at the next level above C1.
 * That may not make sense… If you want:
    A1   B1     C1   B2
 * You would set $mylist so:
    “A1,CHILD,B1,CHILD,C1,BACKUP,B2”
 *  [dozer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dozer/)
 * (@dozer)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149101)
 * Thanks….. didn’t see the BACKUP designator. Again a very handy plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149102)
 * I’m glad to hear it’s working out for you. Let me know if you have any problems.
 *  Thread Starter [pericat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pericat/)
 * (@pericat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149162)
 * Due to another issue pointed out by dozer (thanks!) regarding handling punctuation
   within category names, I’ve made several changes to the code.
 * New version (1.3) download here:
 * [http://pericat.ca/downloads/perisort.tar.gz](http://pericat.ca/downloads/perisort.tar.gz)
 *  [randyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randyd/)
 * (@randyd)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149163)
 * I’m using drop down categories exclude by typedby.com and would like to be able
   to sort the categories the way I want rather than a ascending or descending order.
 * Any one have any suggestions?
    Thanks
 * Randyd
 *  [randyd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randyd/)
 * (@randyd)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149166)
 * Found it. In the dropdown_cats_exclude.php plugin file you can see all the various
   functions. One is sorting order. Default is by name. You can change it to ID 
   by using the sort_column=”ID”
 * Example:
    `<?php dropdown_cats_exclude('sort_column=ID&exclude=4,5'); ?>`
 *  [Torvon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/torvon/)
 * (@torvon)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149233)
 * Great script, thank you very much !
 *  [kickass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kickass/)
 * (@kickass)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149234)
 * Um, it seems my unzipper doesn’t handle tar.gz very well (make that at all . ..)
   Can you post the code and instructions on a webpage or in a txt file I can copy/
   paste from? Or in a regular zip archive? This is exactly the function I’ve been
   looking for, and I can’t wait to set it up.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149235)
 * kickass, you can download a trial version of winrar which will handle anything
   pretty much at [RARLab](http://www.rarlab.com). Way better than whatever’s in
   second place!
 *  [mahmoodreza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmoodreza/)
 * (@mahmoodreza)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-plugin-explicit-category-sort/#post-149270)
 * hi
    i’m using this plugins and copy it in “wp-content/plugins” an actived and
   insert all of category in that same as Readme file: $mylist = “Iranian Music,,
   MP3,CHILD,Avril Lavigne,Sting,TOP,OGG,WMA”;
 * but it’s not work and my category list in index.php page display:
    MP3 Avril 
   Lavigne Sting WMA OGG Iranian Music
 * please help me for solv problem

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