I have written a plugin for those who have been asking for a quick way to sort posts in category view alphabetically by title, rather than the usual chronological order.
This is important if your readers don’t care when things were posted.
This plugin was designed for WordPress 2.0.2.
Download it here: sort_category_posts_by_title.zip
To install, simply extract to /wp-content/themes/plugins and Activate from inside the WordPress Plugins panel.
Currently this is designed to only alphabetize posts when viewed by category and will not alphabetize posts on the front page, search results, archives, etc. It manipulates the query_vars->order_by and query_vars->order variables from inside classes.php so that sorting is done by title, in ascending order.
But the code is simple enough, if you want to make it do that yourself.
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Thks
Did the trick for me – was using the date to sort … archaic 
Is it possible to modify this to sort by custom field instead of title?
Good question. Yes, it is possible. Just change line 15 from ‘title’ to whatever column you want to sort by.
Forgive my ignorance… I searched wordpress support but I can’t tell… if it’s a custom field do I need to just put the “key” name or is there something additional to add?
Great idea for a plugin. Of course, a question:
How would I set about listing _some_ categories alphabetically (eg book reviews, by author) and other categories (eg event listings and news items) by date?
There’s always someone, huh?
I have had two requests for this added functionality, so I will provide it in a new version coming soon.
I’ll keep everyone posted as soon as the update is released.
make that a third request! thanks mike
hi, what about listing only the post title on category view. or post with date and a little excerpt? I hope someone can provide this. thanks a lot.
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I find that if one title happens to have a space at the beginning (from copying and pasting a title without noticing) that the whole list does not get sorted out correctly. Is there a way to make it ignore spaces at the beginning of the title?
thanks
It works great for me in Mundo-CPC, thank you very much!!!
(I hope it will run ok under WP 2.1).
I´ll try to make a donation
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Thanks for the great plugin. I’ve integrated it on the Toronto Meditation Guide (http://torontomeditationguide.org), with a credit to your work here: http://torontomeditationguide.org/about/credits/
Thanks, again, for your great work.
Thanx for developing and sharing this plugin, this is what I was looking for.
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Great pluGin – I am new to wordpress and this was a big help.
Great plugin!
Thanks for making this into a plugin!
Awesome.
Would be nice to have a feature that let the user chose: Sort by: Title | Date | Custom Field…
I’m waiting
just what i needed. thanks for this plugin I hope there’s an update to sort search results too!
What if I want every search ordered by title…?
thank you very much!! it helped me a lot.
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Hi, really Brillant !
Any ideas how to sort now Index page by title too ?
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Just a note, if you want to change post titles from Ascending to Descending – example from 1, 2, 3 to 3, 2, 1 just change:
‘ASC’ to ‘DES’
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Great plugin. I am also looking for a way to sort posts in a category by a custom field.
Perfect!! Works perfectly in 2.6.3. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!!
Plugin still works in WordPress 3.0.4, and thank goodness because I really needed it for my site.
Thank you. It works in 3.0.5 without problem. Does anyone know what the syntax is to sort on custom field?