[wp-hackers] Custom post-type post list ordering

[Peter Westwood]

On 16 Jul 2010, at 02:16, Lox wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a nice custom post type with custom meta field. One of those is
> a mysql datetime string (2007/09/12 12:45)
> 
> I have added the column date to my custom post-type list. Now what I
> wish is to be able to order that list:
> 1) setting a default ordering based on that datetime meta data
> 2) being able to order using other columns by clicking the column header
> 
> How can I achieve that ?
> 

I suggest that you look at this GSOC project which is working on adding sorting to lots of different admin lists

http://gsoc2010.wordpress.com/silviu-cristian-burca-ajaxify-admin/

Also talking to scribu directly may gain you some insight

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