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By default WordPress puts all category links in alphabetical order. For some blogs this isn’t a problem and many people just leave it like that. But if you have strongly related categories that would be better as sub-categories of a category then you need to change it.

So, how do you change Wordpress categories to show a hierarchy? When I first wanted to change one of my blogs to this setting I expected to find it in settings somewhere. It isn’t there of course – that would be too easy. What you need to do once you are logged in to your dashboeard is click on the “Widgets” link – it’s there under “Appearance.” Once the page has opened up find the sidebar in which your categories widget is located and click on the down arrow. The widget will open up and you will see 3 options:

1. Show as dropdown
2. Show post counts
3. Show hierarchy

Check the “Show hierarchy” option and click on “Save.” Close the widget and you are good to go.