diff --git a/lib/topic_query.rb b/lib/topic_query.rb
index e6a168bfe5b..7066ab10860 100644
--- a/lib/topic_query.rb
+++ b/lib/topic_query.rb
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class TopicQuery
   # Maps `order` to a columns in `topics`
   SORTABLE_MAPPING = {
     'likes' => 'like_count',
+    'op_likes' => 'op_likes',
     'views' => 'views',
     'posts' => 'posts_count',
     'activity' => 'bumped_at',
@@ -211,6 +212,10 @@ class TopicQuery
         return result.references(:categories).order(TopicQuerySQL.order_by_category_sql(sort_dir))
       end
 
+      if sort_column == 'op_likes'
+        return result.order("(SELECT like_count FROM posts p3 WHERE p3.topic_id = topics.id AND p3.post_number = 1) #{sort_dir}")
+      end
+
       result.order("topics.#{sort_column} #{sort_dir}")
     end