Title: Posts in three-level order – by year, category, and author
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Posts in three-level order – by year, category, and author

 *  [casista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/casista/)
 * (@casista)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/three-level-oder/)
 * hi,
    can’t figure out how to disply my posts by (1) month, then by (2) section
   and finally (3) alphabetically by author (inside every section). how would you
   go at it? categories + subcategories? tags?
 * example:
    January 2009
 * -Tennis
    –post by Bob –post by Chip –post by John
 * -Football
    –post by James –post by Tom
 * -Rugby
    etc
 * February 2009
    etc etc etc
 * thanks for your help!
 * Casista

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/three-level-oder/#post-1275572)
 * You would need to query the posts table with [wpdb](http://codex.wordpress.org/wpdb)
   joining the taxonomy and usermeta tables and ordering by year, category, and 
   author.
 * Some plugins that you might like:
    specific: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smart-sort/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smart-sort/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/clean-archives-reloaded/)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitemap-generator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitemap-generator/)
 * generic:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/archive](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/archive)
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/archives](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/archives)

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