I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not... but it was something that I changed.
Within the admin area, when you click on "categories", it goes to the "Categories Management" page, url admin/categories.php.
I reorder my categories list quite a bit depending on new additions and what I want to promote more. It was getting difficult to scan this list alphabetically and type in all the "pos" numbers.
So... in include/categories.php, around line 71 (depending on what you've already modded) I did the following:
Code:
elseif (defined('MANAGE_CATEGORIES'))
$sort_condition = " ORDER BY $sql_tbl[categories].order_by, $sql_tbl[categories].category";
// original code $sort_condition = " ORDER BY $sql_tbl[categories].category, $sql_tbl[categories].order_by";
Basically just reversed the sorts it was using. Now they display in order by "pos" instead of alphabetically.
Like I said, don't know if this is what you wanted. I did.
Scott