Control which posts appear inside categories?

There is a way, you would have to do a little work in your theme to add a function to the loop to look for a set group of posts with certain categories first and then fill in the rest.

(For the important posts. Category #5 is set for top priority)

<?php query_posts('&cat=5); ?> <!-- Edit the cat= part to the number of the desired category (check the category IDs in your WordPress system), and this will show the 1st of the chosen category -->
				<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

(Then let the rest of the posts come in. Make sure the category in this string is set to -5 to prevent duplication)

<?php query_posts('&cat=-5'); ?> <!-- Edit the cat= part to the number of the desired category (check the category IDs in your WordPress system), and this will show the 1st of the chosen category -->
				<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Hmm…

The way my site is setup now I have category/pages at the top of the screen. When someone clicks on a category they see all the posts in that category.

Could I create a category within a category? So someone clicks on category “science” and it displays “top-science” before displaying the rest of the science posts?

thanks,

I’ll look into this. I’m on deadline for a project right now but as soon as I get some breathing room I’ll give this a shot. I’m curious about it as well.