Title: Problem with query_posts() sorting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem with query_posts() sorting

 *  [cottonijoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cottonijoe/)
 * (@cottonijoe)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-query_posts-sorting/)
 * Hello there,
 * I would like to create a page which outputs an alphabetical index of all posts
   in a certain category. I tried the following:
 * `query_posts('category_name=mac-software&sort_column=name')`
 * Because I thought it would work the same way as in wp_list_pages(), but posts
   are not sorting alphabetically! Do I have syntax errors, or is this not possible
   at all?

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 *  [Ryan Fitzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanfitzer/)
 * (@ryanfitzer)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-query_posts-sorting/#post-460108)
 * I looked through the codex and saw nothing that allowed a sort by name on query_posts,
   only based on date posted.
 *  [Ryan Fitzer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanfitzer/)
 * (@ryanfitzer)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-query_posts-sorting/#post-460109)
 * I looked through the codex and saw nothing that allowed a sort by name on query_posts,
   only based on date posted.
 *  [djmbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djmbs/)
 * (@djmbs)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-query_posts-sorting/#post-460324)
 * It goes something like this:
 * `query_posts("&category_name=mac-software&orderby=title&order=asc")`
 * Not exactly sure about the category thing, but I was doing something similar 
   the other day.

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## Tags

 * [alphabetical](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alphabetical/)
 * [query_posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query_posts/)
 * [sorting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sorting/)

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [djmbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djmbs/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-query_posts-sorting/#post-460324)
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