Title: Sort comments alphabetically
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sort comments alphabetically

 *  [cajuul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cajuul/)
 * (@cajuul)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-comments-alphabetically/)
 * I am desperately looking for a solution to sort comments alphabetically based
   on the author-name.
 * Hope someone can help me with this.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-comments-alphabetically/#post-1297487)
 * You may need to create a custom callback if you’re using wp_list_comments.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display)
 *  Thread Starter [cajuul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cajuul/)
 * (@cajuul)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-comments-alphabetically/#post-1297619)
 * Found a way:
 * /wp-includes/comment-template.php
 * About line 846 change “comment_date” in “comment_author”

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## Tags

 * [alphabetically](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alphabetically/)
 * [Comments](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comments/)
 * [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)

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 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [cajuul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cajuul/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-comments-alphabetically/#post-1297619)
 * Status: not resolved

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