Title: Ignoring default sort order?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Ignoring default sort order?

 *  [benz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz1/)
 * (@benz1)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/)
 * I’m sure it worked correctly in WP3.7.1 but it looks like since the 3.8 upgrade
   WP-Filebase is ignoring the default sorting and sort order selections and just
   displays them in alphabetical order. As a workaround have added a running number
   in front of file names but does anyone have any suggestions for a fix? Have tried
   adding directly to the shortcode but still doesn’t work.
 * Thanks in anticipation.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-filebase/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-filebase/)

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 *  [kevinbeale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinbeale/)
 * (@kevinbeale)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/#post-4500714)
 * I have the same issue with WP3.8 and WP-Filebase. It was working before for me
   as well.
 *  Thread Starter [benz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz1/)
 * (@benz1)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/#post-4500773)
 * I see a new version has been released so looks like Fabian is on the case again
   but the other thing that appears to have been changed is, “Reverted ‘direct access
   block’ since this is not working for multi-site in some cases”.
 * Is there any chance of the issue above being fixed as it is pretty fundemental…
 * Thanks,
    Benz1
 *  [joshuaiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuaiz/)
 * (@joshuaiz)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/#post-4500783)
 * Having this issue as well.
 * We have multiple files added per week, all with the date in the filename:
 * Awesome File 14-06-03
    Awesome File 14-06-02 Awesome File 14-06-01
 * We have WP-Filebase default order set to display by title, Descending.
 * Since the update they are listed Ascending like so:
 * Awesome File 12-10-09
    Awesome File 12-10-10 Awesome File 12-10-11 … Awesome 
   File 14-06-01 Awesome File 14-06-02 Awesome File 14-06-03
 * Changing the default sort order and/or Ascending/Descending does nothing.
 * It is crucial that this works as we have people paying for these files so they
   need to be displayed in the correct order.
 *  [Ravenhurst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenhurst/)
 * (@ravenhurst)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/#post-4500784)
 * Same issue here, solved by using shortcode.
 * So I need my docs in date order, latest first, so added sort=”>file_date” which
   did the trick.
 *  Thread Starter [benz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz1/)
 * (@benz1)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignoring-default-sort-order/#post-4500785)
 * Hmmm, doesn’t seem to work for me. Tried various combinations of single and double
   quotes, > & < but always displays oldest first 🙁

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