# Sort display of topics Alphabetically

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-display-of-topics-alphabetically/53911
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** topic-filter
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-display-of-topics-alphabetically/53911 "2016-12-07T10:19:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-display-of-topics-alphabetically/53911/26 "2023-06-27T15:58:01Z")

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> [@Seth\_Godin](#):
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> if the admin can set this as the default for a given topic

Do you mean setting “sort by alphabetical order” for a given category? If that’s the case, that might not be possible… The /filter page will look like this:

 ![filter by ascending activity](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/6/b/f6ba67c7f78f9b4a6a891a11724963b33ec64472.png)  
[https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Aactivity-asc](https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Aactivity-asc)

We’ll @ mention you here when we’ve got this feature merged and deployed for you. Setting a bookmark to remind 🔖

Perhaps your admins can try it out and see if it’ll work. As mentioned in the other topic, a possible use-case is that you can use the filter link, e.g. [https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Aactivity-asc](https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Aactivity-asc) and add it to the sidebar.

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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2023, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-display-of-topics-alphabetically/53911/27 "2023-07-03T03:25:55Z")

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@Seth_Godin you should be able to try out the feature on your sites now.

As an example, you can use this which essentially means to sort titles in the #Contribute > Bug category in ascending order:

[https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Atitle-asc%20categories%3Abug](https://meta.discourse.org/filter?q=order%3Atitle-asc%20categories%3Abug)

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Since this feature is now possible, I’ll be closing this topic.

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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-display-of-topics-alphabetically/53911/28 "2023-07-05T03:27:38Z")

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