Hi Chris,
thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
I’m not really sure why this happens, but it might be necessary to tell the DataTables JavaScript library (that TablePress uses for the sorting) to explicitely handle the first column as dates. To do that, please add this to the “Custom Commands” textfield on the “Edit” screen of the table:
"aoColumnDefs": [ { "sType": "date", "aTargets": [ 0 ] } ]
Regards,
Tobias
Hi,
I just found another possible reason for this: In the “Date” column, a few cells have HTML in them, like <a name="May">. Most likely this breaks the date sorting, so I recommend that you remove that, and maybe move those to a column that already does string sorting (because those will not break then).
Regards,
Tobias
Perfect!
Thank you very much for your help (and for replying so quickly).
Hi,
sure, no problem! You are very welcome!
(You should now no longer need the “Custom Command”.)
Best wishes,
Tobias
Hey Tobias,
I am having issues with the java functionality. I experimented with the col span and it broken the sorting. I knew this was the case, but now, having removed the colspan, the java has not returned and any new tables I create will not allow me to use any Java functionality.
I have tried removing the plugin and re installing but the database just returns the same forms etc.
Any ideas how i can return the java functionality
Thanks
Hi,
as you have asked the same at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-functionality-issues I have answered over there.
Regards,
Tobias
