[wp-hackers] GSoC Proposal: Sort By Column

[Ronald Heft]

I would think not, since you have pagination to worry about. The sorting
would have to be done through AJAX or page reloads.

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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Potkanski, Jason <jpotkanski at tribune.com>wrote:

> Could wordpress use the jquery tablesorter plugin?
>
> Jason Potkanski
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> Subject: [wp-hackers] GSoC Proposal: Sort By Column
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>
> From the Ideas Page:
>
> A frequently requested feature is the ability to sort by columns on
> > list-type screens. We don't want to make every column sortable -- columns
> > with multiple values are better dealt with using the existing filters --
> but
> > some things would be great to have. For example, on edit.php, sorting by
> > column might include the publish date, last modified time (would be a new
> > column), title, number of comments, etc. How the list sorting would be
> > affected by paging would need to be considered. This could be combined
> with
> > the ajax paging idea for a great summer project.
> >
>
>
> Here's how hierarchical post types (pages) are listed in the admin (or at
> least how I understand it):
>
> If you're on page 1 and there's a post that has children that continue on
> page two, when you go to page 2, the parent  is displayed again, above the
> remaining children. This is helpful in a sense, but it's also kind of
> confusing.
>
> It would get even more confusing when a user attempts to sort those posts
> by
> title, for example.
>
> So, I think the best approach would be to ignore the hierarchy completely,
> when sorting. Displaying a flat list of sorted items would also make paging
> trivial. (We can still display the parent's title for each child item, as a
> hint)
>
> Thoughts?
>
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