Title: Alphabetizing Posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Alphabetizing Posts

 *  [pablogt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pablogt/)
 * (@pablogt)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts/)
 * Is it possible Alphabetizing Posts by last name (Joe-first, Doe-last) in this
   case showing Joe Doe as is but organizing it by second entry in the post title(
   Doe-last)
 * Usisng the code found in Alphabetizing Posts [http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Alphabetizing_Posts)
   is it possible to ad variants to render it properly organized by last name?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts/#post-1255274)
 * If these are post titles, then not easily, no. The post title is stored as a 
   single string, so, when sorted alphabetically, “Albert Smith” would be placed
   before “Bert Jones”.
 *  Thread Starter [pablogt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pablogt/)
 * (@pablogt)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts/#post-1255527)
 * Hi esmi, can we use a variant so Jones is reconized as before Smith?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts/#post-1255528)
 * Not really without some coding. You’d have to put all your posts titles in a 
   array and when putting them in the array, reformulate the title based on YOUR
   name requirement, then sort the array, then use that to display your posts.
 * You might consider creating a Custom Field and put Jones, Bert in the custom 
   field, then use the `orderby=meta_value` & `meta_key=your name field` arguments
   to do the [query_posts()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts).

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts/#post-1255528)
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