Users – Page 2

Add a Sortable User Registration Date Column to All Users Page

There are could be different situations in WordPress when you will need to sort users by registration date. For example you may notice that spam users has been registered recently on your website and it is kind of difficult to find them in your users list because by default it is sorted alphabetically.

In this tutorial we are about to create a “Registration date” column just like on the screenshot below and of course, what is most important we are going to make it sortable.

this is how to sort users by registration date in WordPress admin
On this screenshot the default Posts column is hidden, but the Registration Date column is added. And when you click on its title, the users in this table will be sorted by their registration date — descending or ascending (click the title twice).

In order to implement this feature we don’t need to use any plugins (but we could of course), all we need to do is to use three WordPress filter hooks:

  • manage_users_columns – to add a columnt to All Users page,
  • manage_users_custom_column – to display the registration date inside it,
  • manage_users_sortable_columns – to make it sortable.

Let’s get started!

If you don’t know where to insert the code from this tutorial, please check this guide.

# WordPress, Users