Title: Custom theme interfering with admin sorting
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom theme interfering with admin sorting

 *  [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-theme-interfering-with-admin-sorting/)
 * Hi All,
 * My site uses a custom theme I developed many years ago, probably during very 
   early v3 of WP (if not earlier).
 * I recently updated to version 3.9 of WP and the theme generally works well, but
   sorting my posts doesn’t seem to work. This is appearing in 2 places:
 * – On the front-end no matter how I choose to order and orderby the posts in my
   theme, they always display with the oldest post first
    – On the back-end, I can’t
   sort by any columns in the admin interface (date, title, etc.). I click the column
   heading to sort and nothing happens
 * I’ve tried disabling all plugins, but that did nothing.
 * So then I just activated the 2014 theme and the problem went away, leading me
   to believe there’s something wrong with my theme. I have no idea what though,
   it’s such a simple and basic theme.
 * Anyone know what could cause this issue? Thanks in advance.

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