Title: sort_column
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# sort_column

 *  [sleepytalk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sleepytalk/)
 * (@sleepytalk)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort_column/)
 * The documentation at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/list_cats](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/list_cats)
   states that I can only sort categories by ID or name. What I’d like to do is 
   sort by number of posts in the category (optioncount). I’m obviously a PHP novice,
   so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort_column/#post-391437)
 * Obviously, you can’t. Unless you write your own code, function, plugin.
 *  [japanitrat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/japanitrat/)
 * (@japanitrat)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort_column/#post-392042)
 * i just thought about it with a simple solution.
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/16746?replies=12#post-472239](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/16746?replies=12#post-472239)
   and maybe somebody could my little question there, too 😉

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## Tags

 * [list_cats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/list_cats/)
 * [optioncount](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/optioncount/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [japanitrat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/japanitrat/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort_column/#post-392042)
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