Title: Sort plugins by activity
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sort plugins by activity

 *  [msedminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msedminster/)
 * (@msedminster)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-plugins-by-activity/)
 * I’d like to hack my wp-plugins.php file in order to create an alternate sort 
   order of the list of plugins.
 * I’d like for those which are activated to appear in alphabetical order first 
   and those which are inactive to appear after.
 * I’ve no knowledge of how php works. What kind of code changes do I need to make
   to implement this?

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 *  [AndreSC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andresc/)
 * (@andresc)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-plugins-by-activity/#post-662089)
 * problem with this is you’re hack will disappear with every new version of WordPress,
   so maybe find or get someone to code a plugin to do it (which I think is possible)
 *  Thread Starter [msedminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msedminster/)
 * (@msedminster)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-plugins-by-activity/#post-662168)
 * I’m not so worried about that as long as I can see how it’s done. I’ll deal with
   the hassle of revising upgrades as they occur.
 *  Thread Starter [msedminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msedminster/)
 * (@msedminster)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-plugins-by-activity/#post-662171)
 * Can anybody offer some help with this coding? I’m not concerned about hacking
   WP code and making updates later in the game.
 * The idea here is to have sortable columns for administration tables. In my case
   I’m talking specifically about the plugins table and sorting by activity. But
   I think this could be helpful for other tables as well.

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 * [plugin-page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plugin-page/)
 * [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)

 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [msedminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msedminster/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-plugins-by-activity/#post-662171)
 * Status: not resolved

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