I resolved an issue with the Sort Parameter that uses the Greater and Less Than signs.
https://wpfilebase.com/documentation/shortcodes/
It said:
File Property to sort files. You can sort by the following
parameters:
file_display_name
file_name
file_version
file_hits
file_size
file_date
file_last_dl_time
file_path file_id
file_category_name
file_category
file_description
file_author file_license
file_post_id
file_added_by Add > prefix to sort descending (< is ascending, by default), e.g: [wpfilebase tag=list sort=">file_size" /] creates a file list where large files come first. You can sort by multiple files, seperate terms by comma (,). Example “>file_hits,<file_name”
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When using the " > or < " signs it would cause the shortcode to break.
Instead of using the " > or < " signs, you should use the alternative HTML versions for the less-than and greater-than signs found at http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
So your code should look something like...
[wpfilebase tag=list sort="> file_date" id='7' tpl=data-table showcats=1 pagenav=1 /]
FYI - Notice there should be a space between the " >
" and " file_date ".
Hope this helps.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-filebase/