New Blogger Feed Sorting....uh Sorted

One thing many people did not like about New Blogger was a new "feature" of the feeds. In New Blogger, when a past entry is edited then it goes to the front of the feed. In other words, the feed is sorted by updated status rather than published.

This was by design by the Blogger folks, and depending on your situation is useful. There are good reasons to give the feed the updated content. But it differs from what most people are used to, and how most feed readers work. And much outcry has come from bloggers affected by this. People have been trying different work arounds (using Pipes, or going through other feed sorters) to stop this behavior.

Well fret no more. Just hours ago the blogging Pirate Pete announced at the Blogger Dev Group the introduction of the "orderby" parameter, which will sort those feeds by updated (the default) or by published (what many want).

So to take advantage of this, the format would be
http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published
of course changing YOURBLOG to your blog name. If you use FeedBurner or some such, burn your feed from that url and your feed will be sorted by published date from now. Nice job getting that out Blogger guys and gals. It was needed.

If you publish via FTP and want to use the new sort, well you can't add that to your normal site feed as it's not on blogger. But pointing to your blogger.com feed seems to do the trick (you can fiddle away now Zo)
http://www2.blogger.com/feeds/YOURBLOGID/posts/default?orderby=published
and you'll have to change YOURBLOGID to your blog's id number (you can get that by viewing source of your page and it will be in the meta data).

NOTE- this does not affect comment feeds, as their updated/published dates are the same.