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List WordPress Post in Alphabetical Order

I have no idea why WordPress is hiding this little gem or if it will be supported in future releases, but as of right now, if you wanted to list all your WordPress posts in alphabetical order you can do this:

wp_get_archives(‘type=alpha’);

And you can do so without banging your head against the wall for an hour like I did.

  • http://www.thomasnorberg.com Tom

    Wow Thank you SO much I was looking for something like this for hours today I really appreciate the info!!!!! I will link to your page to because this is definitely a “GEM”.
    NOTE the only thing is the ‘type=alpha’ quotes have to be changed. Try my HTML encoder to fix it or use a code box.
    Thank you!

  • http://yahoo.com Sam

    for some of us that dont know all that much about this, but at the same time see the benefit, it would be nice if you could let us know WHERE to insert this code

    else, thx for a great tip

    :)

  • JTk

    Hey Sam – I guess you could insert it wherever you wanted to :) I needed to show all of a clients posts in the sidebar in alphabetical order and that is where I used it.

  • http://yahoo.com Sam

    thx for ur reply – still didnt help much. if you prodived your/a sample (the page name, and where in the page) it would help a lot more.

    sorry for the nag, but some of us dont know dick all and are trying to learn

    :-)

  • http://www.geraelindsey.com Gerae

    Thanks! Works perfect :)

    Sam, you add this after your wp_get_archives code, usually in the sidebar.php file. HTH

  • http://www.thomasnorberg.com Thomas Norberg

    Ok so I just did this for mine to make it a little easier.

    Install this plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

    Go to Appearance | Widgets on backend.
    Then drag new instance of php widget to sidebar or where ever you want it.
    Then copy the code from here:
    http://thomasnorberg.com/2009/04/i-found-something-real-nice-from-anther-blogger/

    Once again thank you for this and I really appreciate it, I have been using this code since 2009 and still works great!!!

    Tom