We found a plugin called Sort Category Posts By Title that seemed to be just what we needed, but when using it only with specific categories, it wouldn’t work if pretty permalinks were activated.

We also tried Sobek’s Posts in Category, but found out that, even though it still gets about 10 downloads each day, it does not work for WordPress 2.6.3 or higher.

Fortunately, about that time we stumbled upon the Custom Queries page in the Codex, the ‘encyclopedia of WordPress knowledge’. That’s where we found out that there exists a hook called ‘posts_orderby’ designed to do exactly what we needed.

So we figured that since we’re planning to be using more of WordPress in the future as a general purpose Content Management System, we could also contribute by writing this much needed post sorting plugin.

You can download via the official WordPress plugins repository.

To-Do List

• Sorting for author pages
• Sorting for tag pages
• Sorting for the main blog page
• Sort by custom fields (?)