How to order category the way I want it?

Don’t even know why that worked at 2.7, but the orderby can only be ID, name, slug, count, or term_group (these are actually defined by the function get_terms).

well, I thought it worked in 2.7. didn’t had that many categories ??
At lest they where showing up without displaying NO CATEGORIES.

So there is no way to do this?

So there is no way to do this?

-Get all your posts
-Loop through posts newest to oldest till you’ve got one post for each of your five categories
-Then display those posts

Hi Jellelle

You can also try “My Category Order” plugin (WP 2.8 compatible) to do what you need.

Usage after manual category switches on admin panel :
wp_list_categories('orderby=order&...');

Great addon to override wordpress default way of listing categories ??

Cheers,
Rumores

Thanks all!

For those who want to know, here is the code I smashed together (no coding guru!)

<?php
$cat_posts = new WP_Query('orderby=post_date&showposts=-1');
$i = 0;

if($cat_posts->have_posts()) :
	while($cat_posts->have_posts()) : $cat_posts->the_post();

		$category = get_the_category();
		$allcategoriesID[$i] = $category[0]->cat_ID;
		$i++;

	endwhile;
endif;

$recentcategoriesID = array_values(array_unique($allcategoriesID));

for ($counter = 0; $counter <= 1; $counter += 1) {	//Show last 2 categories who have been updated
	$args_temp = array('include' => $recentcategoriesID[$counter],'title_li'=>'');
	wp_list_categories($args_temp);
}
?>