Creating Sortable Columns

  • Hi all,

    I’m attempting to get a handle on the Sortable columns that come with 3.1. I already know how to create custom columns (although it seems there’s a few ways to get custom field information into a custom column). I’ve worked with these two tutorials:

    https://scribu.net/wordpress/custom-sortable-columns.html

    https://stereointeractive.com/blog/2011/02/26/wordpress-3-1-sortable-admin-tables/

    Neither of which I can to work. I am wondering if someone can walk me through how to create a sortable column for a custom field called “Sort.”

    Here is what I currently have as a custom column that is pulling the Sort field, which I’d like to make sortable:

    ‘add_action(“manage_posts_custom_column”, “my_testimonials_columns”);
    add_filter(“manage_edit-testimonial_columns”, “my_testimonial_columns”);

    function my_testimonial_columns($columns)
    {
    $columns = array(
    “cb” => “<input type=\”checkbox\” />”,
    “title” => “Title”,
    “Sort” => “Sort”
    );
    return $columns;
    }

    function my_testimonials_columns($column)
    {
    global $post;
    $sort = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘Sort’);
    if (“ID” == $column) echo $post->ID;
    elseif (“Sort” == $column) echo $sort[0];
    }’

    I realize this is probably not the best way to create custom columns and I am open to streamling this code. I have no idea how to get this code to merge with the new _sortable_columns filter.

    Many thanks in advance!

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  • Thread Starter Chee Studio

    (@chee-studio)

    Actually, I figured this out! I just needed to register the column as Sortable, since the way I configured the columns seemed to be working great.

    So, using the above example, I added this right below the above code:

    ‘// Register the column as sortable
    function sort_column_register_sortable( $columns ) {
    $columns[‘Sort’] = ‘Sort’;

    return $columns;
    }
    add_filter( ‘manage_edit-testimonial_sortable_columns’, ‘sort_column_register_sortable’ );’

    Working great now! Hopefully this will provide a comprehensive code snippet from start to finish for somebody else trying to get sortable columns going! ??

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