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Every time I enter the categories they arrange themselves in ascending order. I want to randomly arrange it without them being in ascending or descending order. How can I change the setting?

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Are you referring to the main Categories page under Posts (in the admin), or the small Categories meta box on the post Edit screen? – Pippin Jul 11 '12 at 3:56

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Wordpress category list works on defined order structure. If you won't define any it will use default order and that is ascending.

However you can play with orderby and/or order to display your list.

orderby 
(string) Sort categories alphabetically, by unique Category ID, or by the count of posts in that Category. The default is sort by category name. Valid values:
ID - Default
name
slug
count
term_group

order 
(string) Sort order for categories (either ascending or descending). The default is ascending. Valid values:
ASC - Default
DESC

Refer wordpress codex for more detail http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

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The plain SQL is really not helpful at all. – Pippin Jul 11 '12 at 3:56

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