HELP: I'm trying to find a drop down sidebar widget for Wordpress where I can reorder the categories

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I'm using Wordpress 3.0.5 and have looked everywhere for a plugin that creates a sidebar category widget that allows me to include or exclude the categories I want...AND...will allow me to set the order of the categories the way I want...AND...does all that with a drop down menu.

The best one I found so far is the AVH Extended Categories plugin...but it won't allow me to reorder the categories the way I want.
The problem is that AVH Extended Categories makes the menu order like this:
Module - 1
Module - 10
Module - 11
Module - 12
Module - 13
Module - 14
Module - 15
blah, blah, blah until it gets to Module - 19, and then it goes to Module - 2, and then Module - 20, then Module - 21, etc., etc., etc.

And obviously I want the menu order to be like this:
Module - 1
Module - 2
Module - 3
Module - 4
and on it should go until Module - 36
Got any ideas or suggestions for how I can make this work?

Thanks for reading this.
Steve
#website design #categories #drop #find #reorder #sidebar #widget #wordpress
  • Why not use WordPress's own Custom Menu builder? it can do all of that for you (except the drop down menu) and then no need to install a plugin - when creating the menu, you select which categories to include and drag and drop them into whatever order you want them to be, once saved go to Appearance - Widgets and drop the widget into the sidebar - depending on what theme you are using you may be able to create more than one Custom Menu.

    Sue
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  • Try 01, 02, 03...
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    • Thanks Susanne, WP 3.0's new custom menu system is awesome, and I've been using it, but I really needed drop down menus for this one.




      Now why the heck didn't I think of that?! I guess it was late. Anyway, you da man and thanks!

      For the sake of anyone else wanting to create a drop down menu in the sidebar for specific categories...

      I changed the existing file names (slugs) from "module-1" and "module-2" to "module-01" and "module-02" etc., etc. I used the AVH Extended Categories plugin so I could create a drop down menu in my sidebar and I set it up to order the categories by the slug. That way I could preserve the names of the categories ("Module - 1" instead of "Module - 01") too.

      Thanks again.
      Steve


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    HELP: I'm trying to find a drop down sidebar widget for Wordpress where I can reorder the categories

    I'm using Wordpress 3.0.5 and have looked everywhere for a plugin that creates a sidebar category widget that allows me to include or exclude the categories I want...AND...will allow me to set the order of the categories the way I want...AND...does all that with a drop down menu. The best one I found so far is the AVH Extended Categories plugin...but it won't allow me to reorder the categories the way I want.The problem is that AVH Extended Categories makes the menu order like this: