Title: DataTables Sorting plugins problems
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# DataTables Sorting plugins problems

 *  Resolved [idolzest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idolzest/)
 * (@idolzest)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-sorting-plugins-problems/)
 * Hi, Tobias. Thank you for your help in my previous topic!
    Now I have another
   question: how to set up the sorting table in the column with the price? [http://guitar-divan.ru/guitar-gear/mini-amps.html](http://guitar-divan.ru/guitar-gear/mini-amps.html)
   When sorting table with a lower price are interspersed with large values​​. Thanks
   for your help and your plugins!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/datatables-sorting-plugins-problems/#post-5123521)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * The problem here is that your price column does not just contain the prices, 
   but those prices are also links to other pages. Thus, the sorting algorithm would
   also have to sort link HTML code, which is more tricky.
 * I would therefore recommend a different approach, where you add another (hidden)
   column with just the price as a number. Then, we tell the JS library to sort 
   the price column with the numbers from that hidden column.
    For details on that,
   please see these threads that explain this idea: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-a-column-with-a-custom-date-format?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-a-column-with-a-custom-date-format?replies=4)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/substitute-word-for-numbers-for-sorting-issues?replies=6](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/substitute-word-for-numbers-for-sorting-issues?replies=6)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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