Title: Admin Post interface not sorting by date
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Admin Post interface not sorting by date

 *  [zactoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zactoff/)
 * (@zactoff)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/)
 * When I view all my posts in the back-end and try to sort them by clicking the‘
   date’ title at the top of the date column it makes no difference to the order
   that they are presented in, the posts are always being listed with the oldest
   first.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5019844)
 * > it makes no difference to the order that they are presented in
 * In the front or back end of your site?
 *  Thread Starter [zactoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zactoff/)
 * (@zactoff)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5019851)
 * Both.
 * I thought I had a problem with my loop in one of my templates but then I noticed
   that when I tried to re-order them in the back-end it wasn’t happening either…
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5019862)
 * Can you replicate the problem using the default Twenty Fourteen theme with **
   all** plugins deactivated?
 *  Thread Starter [zactoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zactoff/)
 * (@zactoff)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5019864)
 * Oh god, I can try, I’ll have to recreate the site elsewhere as it’s live.
 * I was hoping to avoid having to do that (it’s a big site), and that it might 
   be a known issue…
 * I’ll be back, thanks esmi.
 *  Thread Starter [zactoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zactoff/)
 * (@zactoff)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5020092)
 * Hi Esmi,
 * Belated reply, but FYI I finally tracked this issue down to the plugin ‘Intuitive
   Custom Post Order’ which was over-riding the ability to sort posts by date column
   in the admin area.
 * It also over-rides any ‘orderby’ parameters set in a wp_query in a template.
 * I don’t know if I misunderstood what this plugin was designed for or what, but
   I don’t think it’s clear from the description that it will prevent other ‘orderby’
   parameters from being used.
 * Cheers,

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 * Last reply from: [zactoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zactoff/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-post-interface-not-sorting-by-date/#post-5020092)
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