Use natural sort for sorting

Currently sorting is done on the database level. I will check if it is reasonably easy to let PHP do it for natural sorting.

WordPress sorts “naturally”? That’s really surprising. I thought it uses that function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud#Parameters – where the default for ‘orderby’ is ‘name’. I will try myself when I have more time.

So I checked it. WordPress uses PHP for natural sorting: https://wpseek.com/function/_wp_object_name_sort_cb/

I implemented something very similar, now testing. It should be included in the next version.

In order to keep it backwards compatible (not to change the behavior with the update), natural sorting will require to use the parameter orderby=”natural” – which means “name” but with natural sorting.) 🙂