# Sorting topic by subject

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topic-by-subject/182457
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 8, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topic-by-subject/182457 "2021-03-08T07:44:37Z")
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### Author: ![BIBI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@BIBI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIBI)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 7:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topic-by-subject/182457/1 "2021-03-08T07:44:37Z")

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We have a category for release notes in our instance of Discourse, is there a way of making this category be sorted by default by title or creation date, as both these options would list the release notes in order

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topic-by-subject/182457/2 "2021-03-08T18:14:54Z")

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> [@BIBI](#):
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> is there a way of making this category be sorted by default by title or creation date

You can set a category’s topic list to be ordered by creation date. To do this, click the category’s Edit button, then select “Created” from the “Topic List Sort By” dropdown menu:

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### Author: ![BIBI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@BIBI](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BIBI)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topic-by-subject/182457/3 "2021-03-08T21:22:21Z")

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Thanks Simon much appreciated