Table Sorter

Description

Table Sorter turns standard HTML table (with THEAD and TBODY tags) into a sortable table without page refresh. It works on every table, whether it is coded in the wordpress template(theme) file or generated from the wordpress editor. This plugin is very handy for theme developers. It has many useful features including :

  1. Multi-column sorting.
  2. Disable sorting from particular column(s).
  3. Sort multiple columns simultaneously.
  4. Cross-browser support

For complete documentation and demo, please visit WP Table Sorter plugin support page.

NOTE This plugin works at code level and provides only one opiton under Settings section in WordPress admin panel.

Happy coding!

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. download and Unzip file content.
  2. Upload content to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory of your wordpress installtion.
  3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Reviews

November 30, 2023
Doesn't work for dynamically updated tables (using Javascript). Will duplicate rows. It also has no way to keep certain rows (like a total at the end old the table) from being sorted. There is zero support if it doesn't work for you, I have a table column that won't sort at all, who knows why?
April 26, 2022
This plugin is excellent and saved me a ton of work trying to make a sortable column. Thank you!
December 8, 2021
This was exactly what I needed - fast, simple to use, works perfectly. Thank you!
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Contributors & Developers

“Table Sorter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Change log

2.3

  • Added support for tables in WordPress admin panel.

2.2

  • Added support for accented letters.

2.1

  • Fixed issues, improved ui exprience.

2.0

  • Fixed early hook of the scripts, which caused errors in the WP_DEBUG mode.

1.1

  • 1st version of the plugin.