How to sort wordpress categories by number of posts?

While displaying categories, by default, they are sorted by category name, alphabetically. You can change it to sort by number of post count under that category.

Categories are fetched using the below tag:

wp_list_categories

Use the below arguments to sort categories by post count:

<?php wp_list_categories(‘depth=1&hide_empty=0&orderby=count& &order=DESC&title_li=’ ); ?>

This will start with the category with the highest number of posts.

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