Title: query_post sorting headache!
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# query_post sorting headache!

 *  [threeds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threeds/)
 * (@threeds)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query_post-sorting-headache/)
 * Forgive my ignorance, I’m trying to achieve something quite simple in WordPress.
   I have several posts and I want to sort these post first by ascending category,
   and descending date. Something like
 * SELECT * FROM `wp_posts` order by post_category ASC, post_date DESC
 * I’ve been trying to break down the query_posts function, but I can’t seem to 
   get it to work like that. Without actually hacking the function (since I dont
   want to break any plugins that might utilise it), is there a way to order my 
   posts the way I want it? Better still, instead of using query_post in the main
   page, can I substitute it with my own SQL Code?
 * Many thanks for any help!

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