Title: Ordering posts within specific categories
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Ordering posts within specific categories

 *  [juliat72](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juliat72/)
 * (@juliat72)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-posts-within-specific-categories/)
 * Is there a plugin or a way within WordPress itself to manually set the order 
   posts will be listed within categories? I know there is a sticky facility within
   the quick edit for posts but that only sticks them to the top of the main blog
   page and not the category pages.
 * I have read that you can change the actual coding to display according to dates,
   etc but there will be no hard and fast rules as to what posts go where. Most 
   will just need one of the posts stuck to the top of the category and then the
   rest of them in the normal order of date added.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-posts-within-specific-categories/#post-966145)
 * What you describe is a standard feature of WordPress 2.7.
 * Try this.
    1. Write a post in category, make sure you check the ‘Stick this post
   to the front’ under Visibility in the Publish module. 2. Write another post in
   that same category but don’t make it ‘sticky’. This post will be ‘newer’ than
   the sticky. 3. Change to the WordPress Default Theme 4. Click on the link for
   the category you used, either the link in the sidebar under Categories, or the
   category listed under each post. 5. You will be taken to the Category Archive
   and the sticky post will be first listed followed by the other posts in that 
   category in descending date order.
 *  [mk009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mk009/)
 * (@mk009)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-posts-within-specific-categories/#post-966367)
 * Hi Michael,
 * I have tried this and found it not to work. No posts sticky in the category archive.
   I’m running WordPress 2.7, flicked to the Default Theme just to confirm this,
   with no core hackery.
 * I’m also looking to accomplish this. As I’m looking to have ‘Featured’ posts 
   for the specific category display at the top of the category.
 * Unfortunately I can’t link to show this as I’m developing the site locally.

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 * [Sticky posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sticky-posts/)

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 * Last reply from: [mk009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mk009/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ordering-posts-within-specific-categories/#post-966367)
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