# Specific sort style per category?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [5월 24, 2016, 3:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738 "2016-05-24T15:06:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2016, 3:06오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/1 "2016-05-24T15:06:40Z")
To say it before: I read the discussions and I’m fine with the default sort style of discourse 🙂
Our use case is a little special. We want to use a category of our forum as changelog for our own software. To keep the order of changes, it’s crucial to keep the topics in order of their creation.
I found that you can define the order of a category with an URL param like `?order=created`. But is there a way to set this as the default sorting for a specific category and keep the other categories as is?
Any help would be appreciated 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2016, 4:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/2 "2016-05-24T16:09:05Z")
It is a good idea but not currently supported to set sort defaults per category.
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### Author:  [@phi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/phi)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2016, 8:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/3 "2016-05-24T20:22:22Z")
Definitely something we would like to see as well. Our use case is for an “Announcements” or “News” category that need to always have most recent on top.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 24, 2016, 8:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/4 "2016-05-24T20:31:29Z")
I am happy to add it to our development timeline in #releases; the feature makes sense.
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [11월 1, 2016, 5:34오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/5 "2016-11-01T17:34:02Z")
I added this feature today. We’re using it in our #releases category. You’ll find the setting in the category modal under the Settings tab:
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### Author:  [@phi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/phi)
#### Post date: [11월 1, 2016, 7:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/6 "2016-11-01T19:39:06Z")
This is great, can’t wait to try it out! When can we expect to see this deployed to hosted forums?
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [11월 1, 2016, 7:52오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/7 "2016-11-01T19:52:20Z")
Should be deployed sometime this week.
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### Author:  [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [1월 6, 2017, 9:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/8 "2017-01-06T09:19:47Z")
Thanks! We’re trying it out now 🙂
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### Author:  [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [1월 12, 2017, 11:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/9 "2017-01-12T23:16:56Z")
Here’s my feedback:
The setting works as expected within a single category 👍
However, topics from the categories that have been configured with “Default Sort: Created / Descending” stopped to show up on the “All categories” page. I find this impractical 😕 Is this a wanted behavior?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 12, 2017, 11:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/10 "2017-01-12T23:57:06Z")
Hmm, possible that is a bug. @neil can you have a look?
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### Author:  [@thorbenegberts](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thorbenegberts)
#### Post date: [1월 23, 2017, 10:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/11 "2017-01-23T10:32:34Z")
Hi, any news on this? 🙂
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [1월 23, 2017, 4:04오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/12 "2017-01-23T16:04:25Z")
Something I’d like a lot that seems directly related to this feature request:
Add category setting to override default topics view, e.g. so we could use “Top” instead of “Latest” in the #howto category.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [6월 26, 2026, 6:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/specific-sort-style-per-category/44738/13 "2026-06-26T18:03:21Z")