Title: adapt shortcode to sort on custom data?
Last modified: September 25, 2022

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# adapt shortcode to sort on custom data?

 *  [fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/)
 * (@fabx77)
 * [3 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adapt-shortcode-to-sort-on-custom-data/)
 * Hello,
 * I would like to sort my articles according to personalized data (3 fields that
   have been added via a script),
    I see them well (in the admin dashboard) when
   I consult my articles (3 new columns are clearly visible for each article). I
   was able to enter data (via custom Fields) in edit mode for all items.
 * I installed the “Search and Filter” plugin (free version), so I got the example
   of the following shortcode for the sorting part:
 * [searchandfilter fields=”search,category,post_tag” order_dir=”,asc,desc” order_by
   =”,id,name” types=”,checkbox,radio” headings=”,Categories,Tags”]
 * that I adapted by adding my new sorting field (number_runners) but it never takes
   it into account, I’m not sure if I should leave the headings and tags at the 
   end??.
 * **[searchandfilter fields=”search,category,post_tag” order_dir=”asc” order_by
   =”number_runners” types=”radio” headings=”Tags”]**
 * when I view the page, it offers me a drop-down list with the categories and a
   submit button but when I execute:
    the sort order always remains the same, always
   the default one (by date of creation of articles) so it never takes into account
   the “order by number_runners” (I had to crash on the adaptation of the shortcode!!
   not easy:-0!) (and is there a way then to display this data in the drop-down 
   list because I actually have 3 fields, 3 sorting criteria)?? Thanks a lot! because
   I have a lot of trouble with it!! :-((

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