Title: [Plugin: Codepress Admin Columns] sorting by custom date field
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Codepress Admin Columns] sorting by custom date field

 *  Resolved [obs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliverspies/)
 * (@oliverspies)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-codepress-admin-columns-sorting-by-custom-date-field/)
 * hi,
 * i have a custom field with a date, and when i try to sort it, it always gets 
   sorted by the first digits
 * so in my case the order looks like this:
    02.11.2012 03.08.2012 05.10.2012 …
 * but it should be listed like this:
    03.08.2012 05.10.2012 02.11.2012
 * oliver
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Schutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tschutter/)
 * (@tschutter)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-codepress-admin-columns-sorting-by-custom-date-field/#post-2867781)
 * Hi Oliver,
 * My plugin only supports the date format which is used internally by WordPress.
   That is ‘Year-month-day hours:minutes:seconds’ all in digits.
 * php example:
 *     ```
       // displays the current time in the correct date format
       // to be saved into a custom field for example
       $current_time = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
       echo $current_time;
       // would result in something like "2012-07-17 21:56:30"
       ```
   
 * So in order to have the correct sorting output, you would need to save your dates
   as such:
    2012-11-02 2012-08-03 2012-10-05
 * Tobias
 *  Thread Starter [obs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliverspies/)
 * (@oliverspies)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-codepress-admin-columns-sorting-by-custom-date-field/#post-2867794)
 * ok, thank you for the reply

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 * Last reply from: [obs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oliverspies/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-codepress-admin-columns-sorting-by-custom-date-field/#post-2867794)
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