Title: Edit Posts – Sort Plugin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Edit Posts – Sort Plugin

 *  [Tony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alpha2009/)
 * (@alpha2009)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/)
 * When I select “Posts” from admin menu I am directed to the page /wp-admin/edit.
   php
 * All posts are presented in a table like design – newest on top.
 * Is there a plugin available that allows to define the sort order of that “table”,
   either for Post, Author, Categories, Tags, Date
 * I would need this especially for sorting pending posts.
 * Thanks for your help in this matter.
 * Tony

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 *  [benz001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz001/)
 * (@benz001)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/#post-1099071)
 * This would be great for me as well – did you ever track one down?
 *  [jazbek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jazbek/)
 * (@jazbek)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/#post-1099107)
 * just chiming in as a 3rd person who would really like this functionality.
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/#post-1099108)
 * Hi,
 * Once yuo are at the edit.php file click on either option category, date of the
   post, Author through which you want to be it sorted.
 * However, you can check with this plugin too:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-sorting/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-post-sorting/)
 * Thanks,
 * Shane G.
 *  [benz001](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz001/)
 * (@benz001)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/#post-1099112)
 * Thanks Shane,
 * That plugin allows you to manage the sort order on the front end, what would 
   be great is more powerful sorting on the back end for the admins.
 * The basic filters in the edit.php page are a good start, but they are filters
   not sorts, ie if you click on a category name you will see only posts in that
   category, but they are still displayed chronologically.
 * You also can’t build up compound rules very easily eg “show all posts in category‘
   books’ with tag ‘paperbacks’ and written in the last 6 months, sorted by author”.
 * And before anyone else chimes in, yes I realise you can ‘AND’ together a category
   and a tag by first filtering the category then clicking the tag name, but the
   UI is pretty inconsistent here (why are categories in the top boxes but not tags???)
   and once you have a lot of articles its just not rich enough.
 * You also can’t create any kind of OR filter at all.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-posts-sort-plugin/#post-1099112)
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