Title: Date Sorting No Longer Working
Last modified: August 29, 2017

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# Date Sorting No Longer Working

 *  Resolved [Andy Wallace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awallace39/)
 * (@awallace39)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-sorting-no-longer-working/)
 * My table used to be sort-able by date in the MM/DD/YYYY format. In the tablepress
   editor I can still make the date my default sort and it successfully sorts it
   however, on the actual page when I click to sort by date it is sorting it by 
   the first number (so the month) instead of the actual date. Did something change?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdate-sorting-no-longer-working%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-sorting-no-longer-working/#post-9451756)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * It seems that the automatic type detection does not pick up the date format. 
   We can however just set it manually. For that, please add this to the “Custom
   Commands” text field on the table’s “Edit” screen:
 *     ```
       "columnDefs": [ { "type": "date", "targets": [ 3 ] } ]
       ```
   
 * This should fix the sorting in the fourth column (counting the columns starts
   with 0).
 * Regards,
    Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [Andy Wallace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awallace39/)
 * (@awallace39)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-sorting-no-longer-working/#post-9452051)
 * Hey Tobias,
 * That worked perfectly! Thank you so much for your help!
 * Andrew Wallace
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-sorting-no-longer-working/#post-9452111)
 * Hi,
 * no problem, you are very welcome! 🙂 Good to hear that this helped!
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-sorting-no-longer-working/#post-9452111)
 * Status: resolved