Sort Query Posts

A really simple and lightweight plugin (73 lines of code – comments included) to sort posts on-the-fly without making a new query to the database (improves performance).

Features:

• Supports all order_by and order values of the query_posts function except meta_value and meta_value_num (which require a database query).
• Supports changing the order of all types of posts, including custom post type posts and custom post type “archive” posts.

Documentation

This plugin adds the function sort_query_posts_by(string $order_by [, string $order]) to the global context.
The second $order parameter is optional. Its default value is asc (ascending order).

Call this function before the loop to change how posts are ordered.
After calling this function you can show the posts as you norma…