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1. richcon
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I'm making a list display of 'events' (using custom post types), and there's meta fields for beginning date and ending date (each storing the date as an integer usable with PHP's date() function). I want to show current and upcoming events, so events whose 'end date' meta field is greater than or equal to the current date.

   I also want to order events by start date, so how can I order by a meta field?

   Thanks to anyone who can point me in the right direction!
   Richard

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 11 months ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query

3. Peter vanDoorn
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Here's how I do it with a modified WP_Query:
   

   <?php $args = array(	'post_type'	=> 'events',
   			'post_status'	=> 'publish',
   			'order'		=> 'ASC',
   			'orderby'	=> 'meta_value',
   			'meta_key' 	=> 'event-date-start' ); ?>
   <?php $eventslist = new WP_Query(); ?>
   <?php $eventslist->query( $args ); ?>

   The important bit is meta_key which tells it to look at the custom field called 'event-date-start' (in my case, yours will no doubt be different!)

   Hope that helps

   Peter

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