# Sorting topics by creation date

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 14, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049 "2016-03-14T22:13:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![lubos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lubos/32/91508_2.png) [@lubos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lubos)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049/1 "2016-03-14T22:13:38Z")

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I’ve noticed this forum has links to `Bugs` and `Features` in top navigation which are topics sorted by `op_likes`.

Would it be possible to sort topics by creation date instead? I can see there is `created_at` attribute in JSON output but when I try [https://meta.discourse.org/category/feature?order=created\_at](https://meta.discourse.org/category/feature?order=created_at), topics are not sorted by creation date. Would this be possible?

One category on my forum would be more suitable to sort by “created\_at” attribute. That’s why I’m interested in this.

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### Author: ![lubos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lubos/32/91508_2.png) [@lubos](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lubos)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2016, 10:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049/2 "2016-03-14T22:19:08Z")

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Playing around a bit more, I think I figured it out.

If I use attribute “created” instead of “created\_at”, it sorts by topic creation date.

See [https://meta.discourse.org/category/feature?order=created](https://meta.discourse.org/category/feature?order=created)

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### Author: ![ChameleonScales](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chameleonscales/32/204777_2.png) [@ChameleonScales](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ChameleonScales)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049/3 "2018-06-14T09:40:40Z")

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Awesome. However it doesn’t seem to work with tags for some reason.  
Is there a way around this?

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049/4 "2018-06-15T03:00:07Z")

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Try:

```plaintext
https://meta.discourse.org/?tags=docker&order=created_at

```

Note, closing this … cause I feel like the OP is solved

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sorting-topics-by-creation-date/41049/5 "2018-06-15T03:00:21Z")

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