Title: Sorting not working properly Last modified: January 30, 2018 --- # Sorting not working properly * Resolved [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/) * Hi, * I have table with currency format like: * $1 $5 $100 $1,000 * The sorting is not working properly and show result like: * $1 $1,000 $100 $5 * Is that normal behavior please? Is there a way to fix it? * Thank you. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9917991) * Hi, * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble. * Yes, this is the normal behavior, because you are sorting text and not plain numbers here. To change this, I recommend to use the TablePress Extension from [https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/) * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9918171) * Silly me, I do have sorting extension but it’s disabled! No wonder why it’s stop working! * Thank you very much for your response. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9918215) * 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/#new-post) here in the plugin directory. Thanks! * Thread Starter [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9918603) * Hi, * Sorry but I just notice that the sorting is not working for one table. The behavior is the same as before I enable the sorting the extension. * Do you have any idea anything would cause it please? * Thanks. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921189) * Hi, * Can you please post a link to the page with the table where this problem happens, so that I can take a direct look? Thanks! * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921284) * Do you have email, or a form so I can send you the link please? * Thanks. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921296) * Hi, * my email address is in the main plugin file “tablepress.php”. * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921336) * Sent an email. Hope you can take a look on this. * Thank you. * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921470) * Hi, * thanks for the link! From what I can see, you didn’t add the necessary “Custom Command”. Just activating the Extension is not enough here. See [https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/](https://tablepress.org/extensions/datatables-sorting-plugins/) * Regards, Tobias * Thread Starter [longnha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/longnha/) * (@longnha) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921696) * Hi, * Thank you for the link. I follow the instruction and it now works as expected. * But on the table that is working, I’ve no Custom Commands for sorting, just ‘ orderable’ command and it still works. So I’m kind of confused. * Anyway, now everything work fine, so thank you. 🙂 * Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * (@tobiasbg) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921799) * Hi, * yes, sometimes the auto-detection for the sorting algorithm works, but sometimes it needs the command. * Regards, Tobias Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Sorting not working properly’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/tablepress/assets/icon.svg?rev=3192944) * [TablePress - Tables in WordPress made easy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tablepress/reviews/) * 11 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/) * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-not-working-properly/#post-9921799) * Status: resolved