# Sorting Categories by Title

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027 "2019-03-07T21:42:27Z")
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### Author: ![csmu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/csmu/32/124581_2.png) [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027/1 "2019-03-07T21:42:27Z")

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One thing we use Discourse for is to list songs and concerts for two choirs I’m in.  
It would be useful if the songs were sorted alphabetically.

Is there any way of setting the sort for a category by title?

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027/2 "2019-03-07T22:06:51Z")

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AFAIK it’s not a default option because that’s not really a use case for discussion software. It sounds a lot like something more suited to a wiki or basic document management.

Have you considered adding a list of topics sorted by alpha to the topic description? It’s going to be the least complex solution.

I imagine you can achieve it through a theme component though.

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### Author: ![csmu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/csmu/32/124581_2.png) [@csmu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/csmu)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027/3 "2019-03-07T22:29:14Z")

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> [@Stephen](#):
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> Have you considered adding a list of topics sorted by alpha to the topic description?

I have thought of this. It’d be good enough for the moment.

Discovered the calendar plugin has the ability the enable sort by agenda which looks like it works for the concerts category.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/4/44ce9547e76a9febdfd06c139008843dd9b7996b.png)

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### Author: ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027/4 "2019-03-07T22:29:19Z")

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> [@csmu](#):
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> list songs

Honestly this sounds like a good use case for a wiki topic:

[https://try.discourse.org/t/choir-song-list/1336?u=michael](https://try.discourse.org/t/choir-song-list/1336?u=michael)

> [@csmu](#):
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> and concerts

Have you seen [Discourse Calendar and Events](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-calendar/97376) ?

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-categories-by-title/111027/5 "2019-04-06T22:40:24Z")

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