Title: Unexpected sort behavior
Last modified: April 28, 2017

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# Unexpected sort behavior

 *  Resolved [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * (@iantresman)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-sort-behavior/)
 * On the Table Settings Feature page, if I enable Sorting, if I then specify a 
   Sorting Column of 0, then no column sorting is available. I expected (a) no default
   sorting, (b) Column Sorting to be enable still.
 * It would also be very nice if you could specify which columns could be sorted,
   with a simple comma-separated list, eg. 4,6, would allow only columns 4 and 6
   to be sortable.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/).

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 *  Plugin Author [supsystic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supsysticcom/)
 * (@supsysticcom)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-sort-behavior/#post-9100939)
 * Hello!
    Currently you cannot specify no sorting by default. But we will improve
   this for you in one of the next Data Tables versions. Also we will ad the ability
   to sort table only by specific columns. It will be done in 2-3 weeks. I will 
   inform you about the updates.
 *  [gwblok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwblok/)
 * (@gwblok)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-sort-behavior/#post-9375730)
 * I would like to have it sort by first 1 column, then another. Example, I want
   my list to sort first on Column 3 (Grade), then on Column 2 (Last Name), so that
   I can get class lists, with the students in alphabetical order. Currently, if
   I sort on Grade, the order of kids is all over the place. The last post said 
   this would be done in 2-3 weeks, is it done? How do I sort by multiple columns?

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 * [sorting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sorting/)

 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [gwblok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwblok/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unexpect-sort-behavior/#post-9375730)
 * Status: resolved