User:FlightTime/SortCats

User script

SortCats
Page categories sorted alphabetically
Description	This script allows you to sort a page's categories alphabetically
Authors	FlightTime (customized) Epicgenius (original)
Status	Release
Updated	03/25/25
Browsers	Chrome, Not sure about others
Skins	Vector, Not sure about others
Source Beta	User:FlightTime/SortCats.js User:Epicgenius/sortcategories.js

This script allows you to sort a page's categories alphabetically. It is based off a similar script by Epicgenius. First, navigate to any page with at least one category in the wikitext itself. If you have source editor enabled, click "edit" (or "edit source" if you also have VisualEditor enabled), and press the "Sort categories" button in the left sidebar, under "Tools". Upon clicking the button, the script will sort categories alphabetically. Categories with the same name as the article's title will be sorted first, and categories starting with "A [..]", "An [..]", or "The [..]" being sorted according to their second word.

There are a few key differences between this script and Alex 21's script:

• This script will sort categories starting with "A", "An", or "The". Alex 21's script only sorts categories beginning with "A" or "The".
• This script automatically shows a diff of your changes after you use it.
• If there is a {{DEFAULTSORT}} magic word on the page, this script will remove any blank lines between the DEFAULTSORT and the first category. The DEFAULTSORT magic word should be before the categories.
• If there are any stub tags on the page, this script will add two blank lines between the last category and the stub tag, as per WP:TAGSTUB: Leave two blank lines between the first stub template and whatever precedes it. (One blank line leaves the stub category notice butted up against any preceding navigation template, it takes two blank lines in the edited text to produce one blank line in the displayed text.) The stub tags should be after the categories.

To use this script: Copy the line below, then click here, paste the line, and click Save page.

importScript('User:FlightTime/SortCats.js'); // [[User:FlightTime/SortCats.js]]

Finally, clear your cache and you're set to go.

Please post issues or concerns on the talk page. Please include {{ping|FlightTime}} with your post.