https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly Gravity Support Forums Topic: Select dropdown with categories not ordering properly en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:13:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-230981 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:29:24 +0000 David Peralty 230981@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Looks great. All my best! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-230782 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:43:50 +0000 fu7u 230782@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Solved! Here's my solution, please let me know if there's a better way of doing this:</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&#39;gform_pre_render&#39;, &#39;order_that_stuff&#39;); function order_that_stuff($form) { foreach ($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as $key =&gt; $field) { if ($field[&#39;type&#39;] == &#39;post_category&#39; &amp;&amp; $field[&#39;inputType&#39;] == &#39;select&#39;) { $sorted_choices = array(); foreach ($field[&#39;choices&#39;] as $choice) { $sorted_choices[] = $choice; } asort($sorted_choices); $form[&#39;fields&#39;][$key][&#39;choices&#39;] = $sorted_choices; } } return $form; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-230741 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:51:03 +0000 fu7u 230741@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>PHP-version: 5.3.6<br /> MySQL-version: 5.5.9<br /> Wordpressversion: 3.5.1<br /> Gravity Forms Version: 1.7.2 </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-230737 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:37:07 +0000 fu7u 230737@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I've written this filter that sorts all my categories in the dropdown but still the same problem, anyone?</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&#39;gform_pre_render_2&#39;, &#39;order_that_stuff&#39;); function order_that_stuff($form) { foreach ($form[&#39;fields&#39;] as $field) { if ($field[&#39;type&#39;] == &#39;post_category&#39; &amp;&amp; $field[&#39;inputType&#39;] == &#39;select&#39;) { $sorted_choices = array(); foreach ($field[&#39;choices&#39;] as $choice) { $sorted_choices[] = $choice; } asort($sorted_choices); $field[&#39;choices&#39;] = $sorted_choices; echo &#39;&lt;pre&gt;&#39;; print_r($field); echo &#39;&lt;/pre&gt;&#39;; } } return $form; }</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-229969 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:56:17 +0000 fu7u 229969@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I checked my wp_term_taxonomy table and added up the amount of categories where post count is grater than 0, the result is also 21. So my guess is that categories with posts are being pushed up to the top of the list.</p> <p>Is there a way to make sure the dropdown always list categories in alphabetical order?</p> <p>Thanks. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/select-dropdown-with-categories-not-ordering-properly#post-229828 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:42:32 +0000 fu7u 229828@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I have about 200 categories which are all of the municipalities in Sweden. Of some reason not all of my categories are ordered alphabetically. The first 21 items in the list are just random ones, and then the rest is ordered as they should. They are all child categories of a category called "Municipality".</p> <p><a href="http://i44.tinypic.com/4qq89l.png" rel="nofollow">http://i44.tinypic.com/4qq89l.png</a></p> <p>I've tried running it on TwentyTwelve with all plugins deactivated, same result.</p> <p>Thanks. </p>