table-sorter

Table Sorter

No more old static tables, make your HTML tables sortable.

35.0 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

6.0Kactive installs

49.1Kdownloads

4.8rating

0unresolved threads

19complaints analyzed

17praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

239recent 30 days 397previous 30 days -39.8%movement 1.5Kshown total

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mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.77

Possible to choose rows not to be sortable?

Possible to choose rows not to be sortable?: users show security, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Possible to choose rows not to be sortable?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.86

Desc Sorter order

Desc Sorter order: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Desc Sorter order Hi, your plug-in works great right out of the box thank you.

mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.85

Sorting no longer works

Sorting no longer works: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Sorting no longer works Hello, the plugin has worked for a few weeks and we noticed that sorting has stopped working all of a sudden.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Widget filter

Widget filter: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Widget filter I’d really like your plugin, but I’d like to add the filter column option as shown here: https://mottie.github.io/tablesorter/docs/example-widget-filter-custom.html How do I do that?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.81

No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead

No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead If you use PHP/Javascript then it is a no brainer.

complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.81

Does not work at all.

Does not work at all.: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Does not work at all.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Plugin throwing weird JS errors

Plugin throwing weird JS errors: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Plugin throwing weird JS errors [Error] SyntaxError: Invalid character ‘\u001a’ (anonymous function) (jquery.tablesorter.min.js:2) [Error] TypeError: $(‘.tablesorter’).tablesorter is not a function.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Sort in Admin Backend

Sort in Admin Backend: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Sort in Admin Backend Hello, is it somehow possible to use this plugin for an table in the admin-backend?

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.75

Documentation and updates

Documentation and updates: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Documentation and updates Hi, looking at this plugin I had to delve into the code to find out how it works.

complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.74

Doesn’t work because tablesorter class applied to outer figure tag

Doesn’t work because tablesorter class applied to outer figure tag: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

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I’ve got the same issue.

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WP Tabbed Widget praise owner · intel 71.6 · weakness 62.4

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stale update history 8 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues

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Custom Posts Order praise owner · intel 46.7 · weakness 23.5

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2 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect drag and drop layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues

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HH sortable ID columns praise owner · intel 41.4 · weakness 34.5

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stale update history 1 source link Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure

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complaint Documentation and updates support · 2025-02-25T10:41:06+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Documentation and updates: users show missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Documentation and updates Hi, looking at this plugin I had to delve into the code to find out how it works.

missing feature setup reliable data table and stats presentation operations Evidence only

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complaint doesn’t work with table block? support · 2024-12-04T14:42:59+00:00 · medium severity · table press

doesn’t work with table block?: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: This plugin is such a simple solution for table sorting!

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complaint Unexpecte or invalid content support · 2024-03-14T09:51:27+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Unexpecte or invalid content: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Unexpecte or invalid content When I add this code to the table tag WordPress throws up a warning that “This block contains unexpected or invalid content” and there is no option to “ignore”.

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complaint No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead support · 2023-12-05T03:23:55+00:00 · medium severity · table press

No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: No Support, use ‘sorttable.js’ Instead If you use PHP/Javascript then it is a no brainer.

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neutral Sortless Columns still have up/down Arrow Hints support · 2023-09-29T23:33:53+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Sortless Columns still have up/down Arrow Hints: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sortless Columns still have up/down Arrow Hints RE: class=’sortless’ This does make the class sortless by the hints up arrow, down arrow & up+down arrow are still displayed RE: class=’sortless’ This does make the class sortless by the hints up arrow, down arrow & up+down arrow are still displayed OK, this one was my issue 🙂 Because there is no way to define

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praise Sort Method Undocumented support · 2023-09-29T04:57:09+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Sort Method Undocumented: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Sort Method Undocumented Nothing says how sorting works, I’ve made the assumption that it is text based.

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praise Duplicates Rows on Dynamically Updated Tables support · 2023-05-16T05:35:50+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Duplicates Rows on Dynamically Updated Tables: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Duplicates Rows on Dynamically Updated Tables It works well for static tables but duplicates rows after a table has been dynamically updated with Javascript.

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complaint GENERALLY works well for STATIC tables (2 stars) review · 2023-05-16T05:32:02+00:00 · medium severity · table press

GENERALLY works well for STATIC tables: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: GENERALLY works well for STATIC tables Doesn’t work for dynamically updated tables (using Javascript).

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complaint Sortable tables issue with sorting dates support · 2022-11-04T13:21:34+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Sortable tables issue with sorting dates: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sortable tables issue with sorting dates we have an issue when trying to sort by date.

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praise Perfect (5 stars) review · 2022-04-26T01:13:19+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Perfect: users praise value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfect This plugin is excellent and saved me a ton of work trying to make a sortable column.

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praise Plugin still maintained? support · 2022-04-14T19:53:13+00:00 · low severity · table press

Plugin still maintained?: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Best Farhan Hi there, Yes, the plugin is still safe to use.

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mixed Sort by span title support · 2022-03-06T19:15:57+00:00 · low severity · table press

Sort by span title: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sort by span title Thank you for this great plugin!

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praise How to sort a date-time field support · 2022-02-25T21:25:26+00:00 · medium severity · table press

How to sort a date-time field: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: How to sort a date-time field I tried this: class=”dateFormat-m-d-y g:i a”, but the times are not sorted correctly.

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complaint Sort in Admin Backend support · 2022-01-05T14:42:36+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Sort in Admin Backend: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sort in Admin Backend Hello, is it somehow possible to use this plugin for an table in the admin-backend?

missing feature support data table and stats presentation operations Evidence only

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complaint Doesn’t work because tablesorter class applied to outer figure tag support · 2021-12-16T00:19:03+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Doesn’t work because tablesorter class applied to outer figure tag: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I’ve got the same issue.

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praise Excellent (5 stars) review · 2021-12-08T14:49:08+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Excellent: users praise easy, reliable, performance, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Excellent This was exactly what I needed – fast, simple to use, works perfectly.

easy reliable performance quality data table and stats presentation operations Evidence only

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complaint Return to ‘default’ order support · 2021-07-20T16:53:26+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Return to ‘default’ order: users show migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I can remove the sorting on this column but what I’d like is to be able to restore the table to it’s unsorted condition.

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complaint Sorting works A-Z, but not Z-A support · 2021-04-09T04:01:34+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Sorting works A-Z, but not Z-A: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Sorting works A-Z, but not Z-A Hi!

support easy reliable data table and stats presentation operations Evidence only

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complaint Plugin throwing weird JS errors support · 2020-10-29T21:06:06+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Plugin throwing weird JS errors: users show bugs, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Plugin throwing weird JS errors [Error] SyntaxError: Invalid character ‘\u001a’ (anonymous function) (jquery.tablesorter.min.js:2) [Error] TypeError: $(‘.tablesorter’).tablesorter is not a function.

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complaint Style Arrows up and down support · 2020-10-01T18:34:02+00:00 · medium severity · table press

Style Arrows up and down: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Any help would be appreciated.

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