Title: sort by hidden fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# sort by hidden fields

 *  [johndowbs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndowbs/)
 * (@johndowbs)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-hidden-fields/)
 * Hi roland,
    Great work on this plugin. Very useful and well done. Apologies if
   this has been answered. Im currently trying to display a list of doctors. The
   fields include practice name, name, phone number, address, and website. This 
   is cramped as is, but I also have a field Medical categories, with some of the
   practices in multiple categories. I don’t think it is necessary to display that
   field, and cramp things up even more to where it doesn’t look good, but I do 
   want to be able to search and sort by medical category even if it isn’t being
   shown. It seems you can only sort or search by a field that has a non zero column
   number. Any way around this? Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * (@xnau)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-hidden-fields/#post-4668433)
 * Yes, you can get around this by using a custom template for your list display.
   It requires a little familiarity with PHP, but the template is well commented
   to help you. Use the “pdb-list-detailed.php” template as your starting point,
   and read this article for the full instructions and a tutorial: [How to Create Custom Templates](http://xnau.com/work-2/wordpress-plugins/participants-database/pdb-templates/)

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 * [hidden fields](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hidden-fields/)
 * [sort](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sort/)

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 * Last reply from: [Roland Barker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xnau/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-hidden-fields/#post-4668433)
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