Title: Sorting Users by Name Doesn't Work
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sorting Users by Name Doesn't Work

 *  Resolved [Nathan Parikh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndzynes/)
 * (@ndzynes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-users-by-name-doesnt-work/)
 * When I am logged into my admin account and go to All Users, sorting by Username
   or E-mail work fine. If I try to sort by Name it does not work, it just sorts
   by username.
    Is this a problem with the WP core or is there something else wrong?

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 *  [Drew Jaynes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewapicture/)
 * (@drewapicture)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-users-by-name-doesnt-work/#post-3326808)
 * Hi Nathan,
 * I just tried it on my 3.5 test build and sorting users by name works as expected.
   Have you tried deactivating your plugins to see if that narrows down the problem?
 *  Thread Starter [Nathan Parikh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndzynes/)
 * (@ndzynes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-users-by-name-doesnt-work/#post-3326829)
 * Ah, I figured it out. The sort by Name relies on the “Display name publicly as”
   setting. So even though a user has a first/last name filled out, that setting
   must be updated to be their First/Last name.

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 * [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)
 * [user](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Nathan Parikh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndzynes/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-users-by-name-doesnt-work/#post-3326829)
 * Status: resolved

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