Title: Repeatable fields sortability
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Repeatable fields sortability

 *  [bkjproductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bkjproductions/)
 * (@bkjproductions)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeatable-fields-sortability/)
 * I’m wondering if the drag-ability of repeatable fields has some hidden sort value?
   I cannot figure out where the sort is stored; I did a print_r of the simple_fields_fieldgroup()
   and couldn’t find it.
 * As a workaround I’ve had to put a sort field in, and manually update it. Surely
   there is a better way?
 * Here is my code currently:
 *     ```
       // now get simple fields. They may not be in the right order, so we build an array using the sort value
       		$mysimple_fields_values = simple_fields_fieldgroup('sections' );
       		//dprint_r($mysimple_fields_values);
       		$simplevalues = array();
       		foreach ($mysimple_fields_values as  $value) {
       			$simplevalues[$value['sort']] = array(
       				'anchor'=>$value['anchor'],
       				'subsection_class'=>$value['subsection_class'],
       				'subsection_content' => apply_filters('the_content', $value['subsection'])
       				);
       			}
   
       		$count_of_fields = count($mysimple_fields_values);
       		for ( $x = 0; $x <=  ($count_of_fields); $x++) {
       			echo $simplevalues[$x]['sort'];
       			$my_anchor = $simplevalues[$x]['anchor'];
       			if ($my_anchor == '') {continue;}
   
       			$my_subsection_class = $simplevalues[$x]['subsection_class'];
       			$my_subsection_content = $simplevalues[$x]['subsection_content'];
   
       			echo "<a name='$my_anchor'></a>";
       			echo "<div id='$my_anchor' class='subsection $my_anchor $my_subsection_class'>";
       			echo $my_subsection_content;
       			echo "</div><!-- /$my_anchor -->\n";
       			echo '<div class="clear"></div>';
       			echo "\n\n\n";
   
       		}
       ```
   
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/repeatable-fields-sortability/)
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