Title: Posts listing date sorting
Last modified: September 20, 2023

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# Posts listing date sorting

 *  [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-listing-date-sorting/)
 * Did the date section of the posts section in the admin panel change in 6.3? I
   dont remember these arrows being there in previous versions and they’re driving
   me crazy. I just to just click once to get descending by date, but now it seems
   like if I click it once it goes to ascending, and then have to click again to
   get descending. The behavior is weird and I have a ton of posts on one of my 
   pages so this doesnt load super quick anyway. 
   Just making sure its not something
   I did or if I broke something.
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/EQ2CnSL)

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-listing-date-sorting/#post-17069864)
 * In earlier versions I don’t think the arrows appeared initially, but you could
   always click certain column heads to reverse the ordering. Once there was an “
   order” query var in the URL, then an appropriate arrow would appear. The sort
   behavior remains unchanged, it’s just now more obvious that the sort order can
   be changed. The default order should be DESC date when there is no query string
   in the URL. You should not need to click anything, but if you did click date,
   it’ll flip to ASC order.
 *  Thread Starter [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * (@igneous)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-listing-date-sorting/#post-17380292)
 * yeah its really weird I just cant get it to default to descending by default.
   It seems to want to sort by what it thinks is the most accurate result, so then
   I click it hoping to sort descending, and it goes to ascending. So it’s three
   loads to get there, which on this one particular site is slower than I like due
   to the database size.

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 * Last reply from: [c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/igneous/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-listing-date-sorting/#post-17380292)
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