Boone's Sortable Columns

A handy, extensible class for adding sortable columns your custom post type lists.

Author:Boone B Gorges (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:WordPress
WordPress version tested:WordPress
Plugin version:1.1
Added to WordPress repository:23-05-2011
Last updated:27-05-2011
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:http://github.com/boonebgorges/boones-sortabl...
Total downloads:2 828
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Here’s how I recommend using the class.

  1. Either activate this plugin, or include the class in your own plugin file.
  2. When you start to render the page with the post list, define some columns and then instantiate the class:
    $cols = array(
    array(
    ‘name’ => ‘restaurant_name’,
    ‘title’ => ‘Restaurant Name’,
    ‘css_class’ => ‘restaurant-name’,
    ‘is_default’ => true
    ),
    array(
    ‘name’ => ‘cuisine_type’,
    ‘title’ => ‘Cuisine Type’,
    ‘css_class’ => ‘cuisine-type’,
    ‘default_order’ => ‘desc’
    )
    );
    $sortable = new BBG_CPT_Sort( $cols );
  3. As you render your table, you can use all sorts of fun methods to create column headers. Example:

have_columns() ) : ?>
have_columns() ) : $sortable->the_column() ?>
<th class="the_column_css_class() ?>”>
<a href="the_column_next_link( ‘url’ ) ?>”>the_column_title() ?>

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