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1. beckyddesign
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Hi, I've created a CPT for staff members and I'd like them to sort on the page by last name, so that no matter what order they've been entered in, they show up alphabetically.

   I have this code in the page template:
   '<?php query_posts( 'post_type=staff','orderby=lname', 'order=ASC'); ?>'

   lname is the name of the custom field - but it just sorts by latest post on top. Is there something else I need to add, or? Please advise.
   Thanks

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/

2. beckyddesign
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Ah got it. If there is a better way to do this, please let me know, but this does work. Assigning the custom field as a meta_key and writing the string with ampersands did the trick.

   '<?php query_posts( 'post_type=staff&meta_key=lname&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>'

3. fireproofsocks
   Member
   Plugin Author
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Glad you got something that works. I hate query_posts() and WP_Query class... that's why I wrote the GetPostsQuery class for the CCTM. You'd do something like this in your template file:

   <?php
   $Q = new GetPostsQuery();
   $args = array();
   $args['post_type'] = 'staff';
   $args['orderby'] = 'lname';
   $args['order'] = 'ASC';
   
   $posts = $Q->get_posts($args);
   
   foreach ($posts as $p) {
   // print stuff here, e.g. $p['post_title'];
   }
   ?>

   See http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/get_posts_examples

4. beckyddesign
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Thank you for this and please forgive my lack of PHP knowledge, but your query array is not working. I suspect that I need to re-write how custom fields are printing, but I'm unclear on how to do that, especially since I need the fields to be wrapped in divs.

   This is what the whole chunk looks like:
   

   <?php query_posts( 'post_type=staff&meta_key=lname&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>
                   <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
   		<div class="red-left-photo"><img src="<?php print_custom_field('headshot:to_image_src'); ?>"/></div>
   		<div class="red-left-box"><p class="staff-title"><?php print_custom_field('fname'); ?>
           <?php print_custom_field('lname'); ?> - <?php print_custom_field('title'); ?></p>
   
   		<?php print_custom_field('education'); ?>
           <span class="red">___</span>
           <?php print_custom_field('education2'); ?>
           <span class="red">___</span>
   		<?php print_custom_field('education3'); ?>
           </div>
   
   <?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

   If I replace the top line string with your array, then nothing prints. How can I re-write this? Thanks for your help and for this awesome plugin.

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