Title: Sort Thumbnails
Last modified: August 10, 2017

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# Sort Thumbnails

 *  [ruupster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruupster/)
 * (@ruupster)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-thumbnails-2/)
 * Hello [@burria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burria/),
 * I’ve got a question about the layout of the thumbnails.
    I was wondering if theres
   a way to sort the thumbnails by name (alphabetizing them).
 * At this moment it’s sorted by creation order and I’m not seeing any option to
   change.
 * Kind regards,
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsort-thumbnails-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [burria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burria/)
 * (@burria)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-thumbnails-2/#post-9399036)
 * Hi [@ruupster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruupster/), no you can’t but
   you can do it yourself if you know how to theme.
 * Create a custom page in your theme, then copy showall-fields.php from laika. 
   replace the “$showall .=” for echo.
 * Now at the query arguments add
    ‘orderby’ => ‘name’ for example, more info at
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters](https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters)
 *  Thread Starter [ruupster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruupster/)
 * (@ruupster)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-thumbnails-2/#post-9408372)
 * Hey [@burria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burria/),
 * Thanks for your suggestion. I’ll have to look into it.
    As mentioned I’m not 
   a real coder so have to see if it’s something I’m capable off.
 * I’ll let you know here, for future releases perhaps something to consider, or
   is it really something that should be solved in themes?
 *  Plugin Author [burria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/burria/)
 * (@burria)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-thumbnails-2/#post-9410155)
 * No [@ruupster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruupster/), I gave you a way
   to solve the problem in case you’re in a hurry, as usually is the case when developing
   a website (because timelines) but this feature will be added, probably in the
   next month.

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