Title: OrderBy issues?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# OrderBy issues?

 *  Resolved [RestonUSE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/restonuse/)
 * (@restonuse)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderby-issues/)
 * Does anyone else have issues of orderby and order not working? I’ve tried the
   following shortcodes but they all return the exact same thing:
 * (sidenote: I tried tpg posts and the orderby works. Not sure if that matters 
   but I wanted to try another plugin to see if there was a problem across my WP
   installation)
 * [display-posts posts_per_page=”20″ include_author=”true” include_date=”true” 
   orderby=”date” order=”DESC”]
 * [display-posts posts_per_page=”20″ include_author=”true” include_date=”true” 
   orderby=”date” order=”ASC”]
 * [display-posts posts_per_page=”20″ include_author=”true” include_date=”true” 
   orderby=”title” order=”DESC”]
 * [display-posts posts_per_page=”20″ include_author=”true” include_date=”true” 
   orderby=”title” order=”ASC”]
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderby-issues/#post-7167653)
 * Those shortcodes are correctly formatted. If you aren’t seeing the order change,
   my guess is your theme or a plugin is modifying the the WordPress query using
   something like query_posts.
 * You could try switching themes briefly and disabling plugins to identify the 
   cause.
 *  [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * (@zerogravity)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderby-issues/#post-8782758)
 * Did you track down what was causing the issue? I am having the same problem but
   it is on a live site so I am a little reluctant to change themes and disable 
   plugins.
 *  [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * (@zerogravity)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderby-issues/#post-8782968)
 * I’m going back to bed. Feel like a complete twit. I wasn’t awake enough to realize
   the posts were ordering descending instead of what I expected, ascending. More
   Coffee!!!

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## Tags

 * [order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/order/)
 * [orderby](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/orderby/)

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 * Last reply from: [ZeroGravity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zerogravity/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/orderby-issues/#post-8782968)
 * Status: resolved