Title: Alphabetizing posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Alphabetizing posts

 *  Resolved [TheElear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterpap/)
 * (@peterpap)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts-2/)
 * I wanted to have all my posts in all categories displayed in alphabetical order.
   In the child theme of my twenty ten I copied the category.php file and added 
   the following piece of code (found on this forum) before the loop is called:
   `
   $posts = query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=title&order=asc&posts_per_page
   =-1');`
 * It works like dream! All posts now are in alphabetical order.
 * However one thing has changed – pagination of posts. So in a given category I
   can see now one long list of all category posts, rather than lets 10 and link
   to ‘Older Posts’ and ‘Newer posts’. These links simply disappeared.
 * Any ideas how to alphabetize posts and keep the pagination?
 * regards,
    Peter

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts-2/#post-2530746)
 * try and remove
    `&posts_per_page=-1` from the query.
 * this part basically instructs the loop to: _show **all **posts_.
 *  Thread Starter [TheElear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterpap/)
 * (@peterpap)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts-2/#post-2530761)
 * Thanks alchmyth. It works.
 * I also found that ‘-1’ instructs to show **all** posts, but can be changed to
   whatever number of posts one wants to have displayed. So for example if I want
   to have 5 posts per page then the code will read:
    `&posts_per_page=5`. Navigation
   is then automatically added back.
 * many thanks,

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/alphabetizing-posts-2/#post-2530761)
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