Title: sort by image
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# sort by image

 *  Resolved [greentea05](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greentea05/)
 * (@greentea05)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-image/)
 * Hi,
 * Is it possible to sort the cell which has only HTML image tag.
    If it can, please
   tell me how to do.
 * Thank you.
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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-image/#post-4516565)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your question, and sorry for the trouble.
 * That’s not really possible, as the sorting script obviously can not know which
   image should come first, i.e. what order the images should have.
    The best way
   for that is therefore to add a new column on the right of the column with the
   images, and to put a number into each cell there which then will be used for 
   the sorting of the image column. We will then also hide that column, so that 
   the user doesn’t see it. For that, you’ll have to add this to the “Custom Commands”
   textfield on the “Edit” screen of the table then:
 *     ```
       "aoColumnDefs": [ { "iDataSort": 1, "aTargets": [ 0 ] }, { "bVisible": false, "aTargets": [ 1 ] } ]
       ```
   
 * If the images are in the first column (indicated by the 0 in the code), this 
   would tell the script to use the numbers in the second column (indicated by the
   1 (twice) in the code) for sorting. (Counting columns starts with 0 here in the
   code.)
 * Regards,
    Tobias

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