# How to resort a topic's messages by date?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resort-a-topics-messages-by-date/159602>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resort-a-topics-messages-by-date/159602 "2020-08-02T19:46:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mreach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mreach](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mreach)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-resort-a-topics-messages-by-date/159602/3 "2020-08-03T07:24:03Z")

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Hmm, these have been in place now for quite some months. I don’t really believe the deletion and reimportation is an appropriate solution. I wonder if we can build a plugin that will allow post-id reordering… hmm.

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