Descending – Ascending order problems

Hi,

thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.

The reason for this is that your dates are in the dd.mm.yyyy format, while the DataTables JS library that TablePress uses only understands the English mm-dd-yyyy format by default.
To change this, you could take a look at the TablePress Extension from https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/ which adds a sorting algorithm for your date format.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks!

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks for the link!

Now, I’m not exactly sure, but it might be possible that this is caused by some cells in that third column being empty. It might be possible that the DataTables JS library requires a date in all cells of that column.

We could maybe try setting the data type of the columns manually, to see if that helps. For that, please try adding this to the “Custom Commands” textfield on the “Edit” screen of the table:

"columnDefs": [ { "type": "date-eu", "targets": [ 1, 2 ] } ]

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

ok, I just noticed that you still seem to be using an old version of TablePress. Please update to TablePress 1.6. (You might have to update to WordPress 4.2.2 first.)

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

are you using WordPress 4.2.2? And which version of TablePress are you using?

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

my email is in the main plugin file of TablePress, “tablepress.php”.

Regards,
Tobias

Hi,

thanks, I just replied.

Regards,
Tobias