Reverse the post order for a specific category to be date ascending. This is a lightweight plugin that adds the option to reorder the posts from a spe …
As of April 2026, Post Order By Category is a WordPress post order plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 8.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 25% this week. Top alternative: Post Types Order.
Reverse the post order for a specific category to be date ascending. This is a lightweight plugin that adds the option to reorder the posts from a specific category by published date (ascending or descending). When creating or editing a category from the Admin Dashboard, the user can choose to sort the posts for that category by oldest (old posts on top of the page) or newest (new posts first). Useful for journals, books or achives, who need to have a chronological sort order for certain category archives.
I am so grateful for this plugin, it does exactly what I was looking for!
Some categories at my blog need to follow the publishing date and be read/displayed in chronological order. Job done with this plugin!
I’m still learning this craft of blogging and I’m not the most technical person, so this plugin really helped to get my memoirs in the right order. Thankyou.
This is a perfect plugin for me. Super simple to achieve what I needed.
While I want people who visit my blogs to see the latest posts, I have a category for each trip. Having the ability to list these historical trip in chronological order from the first post is absolutely perfect.
Thanks so much for this plugin.
Darro
I have tried other plugins, this plugin works perfect.
Thank you 🙂
Simple to use. I wanted to sort a historic Time Line of a Botanist Explorer, Allan Cunningham, from oldest to newest. So now the Time Line starts with the birth of Mr Cunningham, and not with his death. PERFECT!
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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