How to Change the Categories Order in the Admin Dashboard?

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1. Found an answer in this answer.

   add_filter( 'get_terms_args', 'wpse_53094_sort_get_terms_args', 10, 2 );
   function wpse_53094_sort_get_terms_args( $args, $taxonomies ) 
   {
       global $pagenow;
       if( !is_admin() || ('post.php' != $pagenow && 'post-new.php' != $pagenow) ) 
           return $args;
       
       $args['orderby'] = 'slug';
       $args['order'] = 'DESC';
   
       return $args;
   }
   

   The order may be ASC or DESC, and the orderby can be:

   • count
   • description (it should, but didn’t work so well for me, futher tests necessary)
   • name
   • slug

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   Plugins of interest

   (may we call those Plinterests?)

   The first two are very short and and can be easily incorporated into your code.

   • Category Checklist Expander : expands the height of the category list, so no scrolling is needed

   • Category Checklist Tree : this one rebuilds the Category Meta Box, so you can modify its code for further styling/adapting the box – and here’s a screenshot of what it does

     

   • Gecka Terms Ordering : creates an auxiliary table in the database (wp_termmeta) to deal with the ordering. Has drag and drop capabilities.

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2. Use the plugin Advanced Custom Fields (This plugin is handy in many different ways). Then create an custom order field (category_order) with the rule ‘Taxanomy_Term’ is equal to ‘Categories’.

   Then in your theme functions.php (or somewhere relevant) use:

   $categories = get_categories( $args );  
   
   usort($categories, function($a, $b) {
      return get_field("category_order", "category_".$a->term_id) - get_field("category_order", "category_".$b->term_id);
   });
   
   foreach ($categories as $category){
   ...
   

   Where category_order is the field name you created with ACF.

   This post inspired by this one here.

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3. There’s no default option for it, but there’s two other ways.

   1. Change it in the theme files http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories
   2. Use a plugin. Eg http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-category-order/

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