# Sort tagged topics by creation (or tagging) date
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [June 15, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964 "2018-06-15T11:30:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 11:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/1 "2018-06-15T11:30:55Z")
You can order topics within a category by creation date with `?order=created` but you can’t do that with tags.
The only workaround is to use the search feature but this feature has limitations. For instance it doesn’t show more than 175 results (e.g. [Search results for '#pr-welcome order:latest\_topic' - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true&q=%23pr-welcome%20order%3Alatest_topic))
Also it doesn’t work with several plugins.
A real solution like `order=created` would solve that.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/2 "2018-06-16T02:11:10Z")
I am still not following:
[https://meta.discourse.org/?order=created&tags=docker](https://meta.discourse.org/?order=created&tags=docker)
[https://meta.discourse.org/?order=op\_likes&tags=docker](https://meta.discourse.org/?order=op_likes&tags=docker)
And so on
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/3 "2018-06-16T11:24:53Z")
Awesome! Didn’t know you have to put the order before the tag.
However it doesn’t work on blenderartists. Where is the documentation for all these url suffixes?
@bartv any idea why it doesn’t work on blenderartists?
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/4 "2018-06-16T15:02:00Z")
I concur that neither options I have found for this work on my site either, I have tried both of these and they throw me to the home page.
/?tags=lightroom&order=created\_at
/?order=created&tags=lightroom
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/5 "2018-06-16T21:17:01Z")
I notice that here at meta the links Sam posted are routed to “`/latest?tags=`” i.e. the query parameters are added to a page path and not the / directory.
Might it be that latest needs to be the “home” page for these to work without explicitly using latest in the URL?
In other words, if the category list page is “home” it can’t be sorted / filtered as the latest list page can be.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/6 "2018-06-22T14:02:17Z")
I think you’re on to something, this seems to be working on my site
`/latest?order=created&tags=lightroom`
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/7 "2018-06-22T14:37:52Z")
I confirm, adding `/latest` does the trick. Thanks @Mittineague!
Although the Topic List Preview plugin doesn’t cope well with it, as it doesn’t display the thumbnails like it does with the default tag listing.
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### Author:  [@davidkingham](https://meta.discourse.org/u/davidkingham)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/8 "2018-06-23T18:59:22Z")
My topic list preview is working for this, do you have tags and latest in the topic\_list\_thumbnail setting?
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/11 "2018-06-29T00:29:27Z")
Not “latest” because [blenderartists.org](http://blenderartists.org) is kind of half for artwork and half for help on using the program, so enabling thumbnails on latest would be problematic (tech support topics shouldn’t have thumbnails).
Could there be any workaround?
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/12 "2018-07-10T16:42:58Z")
To the developers of Discourse: would it be possible to implement a “/tags/some-tag?order=created” system?
That would allow the Topic List Preview add-on to work along with it.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/13 "2018-07-11T00:32:32Z")
OK let me clarify, you have:
`https://blenderartists.org/latest?order=created&tags=architecture`
But want that displayed like:
`https://blenderartists.org/tags/architecture`
So you have 3 options here:
1. Get @angus to add some magic option here for you
2. Turn on topic preview everywhere and not only on tags
3. Submit a PR to core that adds `order` support to the tags route (not against this)
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/14 "2018-07-11T00:50:04Z")
1. not happening. Enabling thumbnails on tech support topics is a waste of space
2. didn’t quite get that. What’s a PR?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/15 "2018-07-11T00:53:37Z")
> [@ChameleonScales](#):
>
> What’s a PR?
A change request of contributed code by the community to our Discourse repo at: [GitHub - discourse/discourse: A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse)
If you wanted to kick start this change you could post to #Marketplace with a budget.
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/17 "2018-07-11T12:55:08Z")
I have no knowledge in any of the languages that Discourse is made with so I can’t make a pull request myself and since the issue tracker is disabled, I guess I just have to keep this request here and be patient.
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/18 "2018-07-11T12:56:27Z")
I’ll see if there are drawbacks to enabling topics preview everywhere (I have concerns about layout and performance), and if needed I can chat with Angus too to see if this is something he thinks is worth doing.
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/19 "2018-07-13T05:21:30Z")
You guys want this route sorted by tag creation to match with the featured topics order right?
> **[Topics tagged featured](https://blenderartists.org/tag/featured)**
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> Topics tagged featured
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### Author:  [@bartv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bartv)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/20 "2018-07-13T05:48:23Z")
Yeah exactly. Right now the user experience of going from the featured row to the featured gallery is weird as their order is different.
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### Author:  [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/21 "2018-07-21T04:55:22Z")
This has been addressed, insofar as it applies to featured topics in the Topic List Previews plugin:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/41630/887?u=angus](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/41630/887)
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/22 "2018-07-22T16:00:19Z")
Great!
One issue solved.
Is it possible to expand it to work with any tag?
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### Author:  [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sort-tagged-topics-by-creation-or-tagging-date/89964/23 "2018-11-04T19:07:34Z")
Actually… I’m not sure it works.
Isn’t it supposed to sort featured topics by tagging date?
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