This post actually belongs in the "support" forum.  (The "How to" forum is for finished instructions on how to do things — not questions)

Anyway, the "grid-view" template doesn't actually show categories, but products themselves.

If you want to change the order of the product images on the grid-view page, then you just need to modify on or around line #34 of the "gridview.php" file where it says:

$wp_query->query('orderby=title&order=asc&cat='.$grid_cat_id.'&showposts='.$mkt_options['mkt_grid_thumbs_per_page'].'&paged='.$paged);

The "orderby" value can be changed to different values as described here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Cla…..Parameters

Yes, the storefront homepage template makes more sense.  It's the "frontdoor.php" file.

In this case, the line to change is on #14 where it says:

<?php     $my_query = new WP_Query('cat='.$mkt_options['product_cat'].'&showposts='.$mkt_options['mkt_newprods_storefront']); 

You can reference the page:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Cla…..Parameters

for the parameters you can use to modify the "orderby" process.  This parameter is currently not shown in the link, so you'd need to add it in yourself.

I hope this helps.

If you're  asking if there is a built-in way that you can define the order of categories manually, I don't think there is.  Categories in Wordpress don't have a "sort order" like posts do.

A possible work around, is to rename the category name to begin with a number.

Sort of like this:

1)  Category name

2)  Category Name

3)  Category Name

Other than that, I don't know.  A coder could go in and hard code so that certain category IDs showed up in a certain order, but nothing I can offer in the way of that code.  Sorry.

Great idea! Thanks for posting.

Did you change the code, so that it sorted by category slug?

The idea you mentioned would have 2 elements.

1.  naming the category slugs appropriately with letters (a-category, b-category, c-category, etc.)

2. Editing the code, so that it sorted by category slug, instead of the default method.

Sorry, I may have provided bad information initiall on this one.

You may need to alter lines on or around #1681 through #1685 in the "functions.php" file where it says:

            // show all category children and grandchildren
            $productCats = get_categories('hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat);
        } else {
            // show only direct category children
            $productCats = get_categories('hide_empty=0&parent='.$cat); 

Just add in the "orderby" parameter like this:

            // show all category children and grandchildren
            $productCats = get_categories('orderby=slug&hide_empty=0&child_of='.$cat);
        } else {
            // show only direct category children
            $productCats = get_categories('orderby=slug&hide_empty=0&parent='.$cat); 

Make sure to save the file.

This is the Wordpress Codex page for the "orderby" info.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Fun…..categories

I think that's better.

For the left menu area, just look in the "sidebar.php" file.

Just change the "orderby=" parameter to "slug" I expect.