Title: XML sitemaps order sorting
Last modified: February 21, 2023

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# XML sitemaps order sorting

 *  Resolved [whitehumorous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitehumorous/)
 * (@whitehumorous)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemaps-order-sorting/)
 * Hi, thanks for your great plugin and much appreciated. Recently I need a sitemap
   to let the crawler to crawl the latest post type page whenever the server cache
   is refreshed, and I would like to make use of Yoast’s sitemap. However I found
   out that the sitemap for post type is ordered by modified date in ascending order,
   based on the 2 lines in the file “**class-post-type-sitemap-provider.php**” below:
 * `ORDER BY post_modified_gmt ASC`
 * `ORDER BY {$wpdb->posts}.post_modified ASC LIMIT %d OFFSET %d`
 * I can directly edit the file, but since the update frequency of Yoast is quite
   often, may I know is there any filter so that I can change the order from ASC
   to DESC?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemaps-order-sorting/#post-16491838)
 * Hello [@whitehumorous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitehumorous/)
 * Thanks for reaching out regarding your sitemap.
 * We don’t have a filter to sort the order in which URLs are diplayed in the XML
   sitemap. But of course, you’re free to customize the Yoast SEO plugin to suit
   your needs.
 * And in addition, the ordering is not particularly important as far as Google 
   is concerned; XML sitemaps are not crawled or processed in the same way as conventional
   URLs or pages.
 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemaps-order-sorting/#post-16508776)
 * This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always 
   welcome to re-open the topic. Please read [this post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-before-your-post/)
   before [opening a new request](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo#new-post).

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## Tags

 * [asc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/asc/)
 * [desc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/desc/)
 * [order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/order/)
 * [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemap/)

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 * Last reply from: [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemaps-order-sorting/#post-16508776)
 * Status: resolved