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Old 05-04-2020, 07:42 PM   #8
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hobnail mentions it in passing, but to me the biggest advantage of a custom column is being able to sort by it. I don't think you can do that with a tag value.

Also, some plugins, like Count Pages, write to custom columns.

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Originally Posted by hobnail View Post
There's less clutter with a column versus a tag that might be mixed in with other tags. For example, when you sort on that column you can immediately see what's what. I had been using tags but have switched to using custom columns.
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