Views Sort Criteria

The sort criteria on a View controls the order in which views results are presented. In general, sort criteria are specified by a direction, and the order is important.

For example, if a view is sorted by taxonomy term ascending, and then title descending, then the entire list of posts will be sorted by what taxonomy term they belong to. (Note: vocabularies where multiple terms are allowed for this setting will produce apparently nonsensical results!) Then, all posts which belong to the same term will be sub-sorted by title in reverse alphabetical order.

Field

What follows is a list of sorting criteria supported by Views by default. More may be available, supplied by modules with Views support.

Node: Created Time

Sort by the submission date of the node.

Node: Last Updated Time

Sort by the last update date of the node.

Node: Sticky

Sort by whether or not the node is sticky. Choose descending to put sticky nodes at the top.

Node: Title

Sort by the node title, alphabetically

Random

By choosing random, nodes will be ordered completely randomly. This is a good way to choose X random nodes from a group of nodes.

Node: Author Name

This allows you to sort alphabetically by author.

Comment: Last Comment Date

This will allow you to sort by the date of the most recent comment on a node.

Taxonomy: Term Name

This will sort nodes by taxonomy weight and name, as defined in the category administration.