Alphabetized My Sites

[scep]

For installs that have lots of sites it would be easier to browse if the sites are alphabetized. I add the following code to our install after each update. It would be nice if this was the default.

after line 72: reset( $blogs );

	function cmp($a, $b){
		if ($a->blogname == $b->blogname)return 0;
		else return ($a->blogname < $b->blogname) ? -1 : 1;
	}
	uasort($blogs, 'cmp');

[jakub.tyrcha]

I don't think the original idea is a good solution - get_blogs_of_user is called in several places and doing a sort outside of this function doesn't make any good. Instead, I propose to introduce internal sorting - it looks much better and does a better job. Patch attached. Also, I improved it to allow sorting by every variable, not only the blogname.

[technosailor]

This patch needs a refresh, but I like the concept personally.

[jeremyfelt]

Needs UX feedback. There is a filter for get_blogs_of_user that could probably be used by a plugin to do this. It may confuse a bunch of people already running multisite if the My Sites menu was all of a sudden alphabetized.

[jeremyfelt]

#27517 was marked as a duplicate.

[tryon]

Replying to jeremyfelt:

Needs UX feedback. There is a filter for get_blogs_of_user that could probably be used by a plugin to do this. It may confuse a bunch of people already running multisite if the My Sites menu was all of a sudden alphabetized.

I came up with a plugin to do this a few years ago and just released it: ​https://wordpress.org/plugins/sort-my-sites/

I agree with your UX comment, by default we could leave it unordered and then allow the site owner/user to sort by Site ID, Site Name, Domain, Site Path, or Site URL.

[karmatosed]

Conceptually I think the idea it's alphabetical makes sense. I agree though with the concern that suddenly seeing this change could be disconcerting. This is a not so cautious approach though. I'd personally say the usability gain would be enough to make this happen.

If we are being cautious, I would suggest we need to work out how many are self fixing this like the original comment. If that is a lot of users then it makes sense to change it without worrying about implications.

[karmatosed]

As there hasn't been any feedback on amount that would benefit from this, going to close as this could be done with a plugin and avoid the issues of changing an interface.