joequery/Stupid-Table-Plugin — pull request #14 by glogiotatidis (2012-04-30 10:03:46+00:00)
Title: If attribute 'data-order-by' exists, order by this. Otherwise order by text.

Helpful when you dynamically change the content of your tables but you want to maintain sort order. For example I use the pretty date plugin, which changes timestamps to relative dates "e.g. 1 day ago". I still want stupidtable to sort the table based on the timestamp and not by the text produced by the plugin.