So i,ve just been trying out wordpress, and im really impressed, so heres a solution to something i just worked out:
You can download a plugin called “Category Order” from this site http://wpguy.com/plugins/category-order/ to allew you to easily customize the order of your categories as shown in the sidebar widget, but for me and others online it wasnt having any effect on the top header menu, with mine defaultig to sort by count of posts.
Any way it wasnt hard, theres even a tip on the authers front page:
If you use wp_list_categories(), make sure you don’t specify an order (e.g. wp_list_categories(’orderby=count’);).
So jump into the Appearance editor, and open header.php for your template, then find the following bit:
<div id=”catmenu”>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories(’orderby=count&order=DESC&show_count=0&hierarchical=1&title_li=&depth=1′); ?>
</ul>
</div>
And Change to this instead:
<div id=”catmenu”>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories(’show_count=0&hierarchical=1&title_li=&depth=1′); ?>
</ul>
</div>