Title: Custom Date sort
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Custom Date sort

 *  Resolved [craiglthompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craiglthompson/)
 * (@craiglthompson)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/)
 * Hi,
    File Away is perfect for what we need to display, so thanks for making such
   a useful plugin. Here’s my problem: I’m getting requests to have the letters 
   home (on the link provided) ordered by date. I looked at other support tickets
   and found out about using asterisk on custom columns etc but am I overlooking
   something, maybe to do with the format I use for dates, because it doesn’t seem
   to order properly. I have seen 2 other FA users had the same problem but it seems
   to have been fixed for them, so I aren’t sure where I am going wrong. eg.1 [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-colum-sort-not-working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-colum-sort-not-working)
   eg.2 [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-table-or-list-backwards-z-to-a?replies=5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-table-or-list-backwards-z-to-a?replies=5)
   I’d really appreciate any support you are able to provide.
 * Many thanks,
    Craig Thompson
 * **shortcode:**
    [fileaway type=”table” sub=”lettershome/2015″ paginate=”true”
   searchlabel=”Search” mod=”no” customdata=”Date*, Year Group” showrss=”true” sortfirst
   =”custom-desc” flightbox=”pdfs” boxtheme=”silver-bullet” theme=”whitestripes”
   color=”red”] **website:** [http://ruthgorse.leeds.sch.uk/parents-and-carers/letters-home/](http://ruthgorse.leeds.sch.uk/parents-and-carers/letters-home/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/file-away/)

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 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/#post-6079228)
 * If you’re going to sort by date, the dates need to be Year-Month-Day format.
 *  Thread Starter [craiglthompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/craiglthompson/)
 * (@craiglthompson)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/#post-6079230)
 * Ah, okay that was simple 🙂
    Thanks Thom!
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/#post-6079232)
 * E.g., 2015-12-31
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/#post-6079234)
 * No prob.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-date-sort/#post-6079234)
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