WordPress.org

1. Runtheball
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm trying to display a list of upcoming events, ordered by event date. I'm using a custom field on each post called 'expiration', with values similar to '02/07' and '03/13'. What I have now gets me the posts I want, but orders them by the last digits, like this:
   02/18
   03/13
   02/07

   here's the code I have at the moment:

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

   It seems the orderby=meta_value_num doesn't know that the values are dates. How can I fix this without making the custom field entry complex for the poster?

2. Runtheball
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I guess the main question is how should a poster enter date info into a custom field, so that the posts can be sorted by that date?

   ...and just want to clean up that code.

   [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try using yy/dd/mm for your dates

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.