We could display our model objects on the Django Admin.

• Django – Show model objects in Django Admin and apply format filter

The list table could be sorted by specific column. Say we have added the creation date to the Person model class.

models.py

from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
  name       = models.CharField(max_length=256)
  homepage   = models.URLField(max_length=256)
  created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
  updated_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)

  def __unicode__(self):
    return self.name

In the admin.py, we could add the sorting by setting the ordering attribute.

admin.py

from django.contrib import admin
from eureka.models import Person

class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):  
  list_display = ('name', 'view_homepage_link', 'created_at', 'updated_at')
  ordering = ('-created_at',) # The negative sign indicate descendent order

  def view_homepage_link(self, obj):
    return '<a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a>' % (obj.homepage, obj.homepage,)
  view_homepage_link.allow_tags = True
  view_homepage_link.short_description = 'Homepage' # Optional

admin.site.register(Person, PersonAdmin)

Check it out.

Done =)

Reference: StackOverflow – Ordering the display items alphabetically in Django-Admin