Title: Posts by GMT
Author: rjl20
Published: <strong>October 6, 2011</strong>
Last modified: October 6, 2011

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used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Posts by GMT

 By [rjl20](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rjl20/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/posts-by-gmt.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-gmt/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-gmt/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-gmt/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-gmt/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/posts-by-gmt/)

## Description

Most people don’t need this plugin. Most wouldn’t notice a difference if they had
it. All it does is change the default sort order of a WP_Query from posts.post_date
to posts.post_date_gmt — that is, sort on the GMT timestamp of a post rather than
the local time zone.

Who needs this? People who switch time zones frequently. People running a network
installation of WordPress where they want to be able to aggregate posts from all
their network blogs easily, and in the right order. I don’t know. I wrote it for
FreeThoughtBlogs.com, so their “most recent posts” sidebar would stop showing only
posts from a few blogs in early time zones. If it works for you, great.

I have every hope that this plugin will be made obsolete by the default sort order
being changed in the WordPress core. I can think of no good reason why comments 
are sorted by GMT but posts by local time.

For all I know, this plugin works with older versions than 3.0. I’ve only tested
it with 3.2.1.

## Installation

The same as with any other WordPress plugin:

 1. Upload `posts-by-gmt.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. That’s it. There are no configuration options.

## FAQ

#### Are there any frequently asked questions?

Not yet.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Posts by GMT” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ rjl20 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rjl20/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posts-by-gmt/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/posts-by-gmt/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-by-gmt/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/posts-by-gmt/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * Initial version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 * Tags
 * [gmt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gmt/)[orderby](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/orderby/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[sort order](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sort-order/)
   [time zone](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/time-zone/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-by-gmt/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ rjl20 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rjl20/)

## Support

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