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1. jumust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,
   I would like to order posts within the category
   http://screencast.com/t/WoxG2syXFA2w

   and by default the wordpress order should be descending based on published date, but I want to order descending based on a custom field I use (event_end_date)
   Here is the code of the page and the order should be around the highlighted part:
   http://pastebin.com/v4mUv7zp

   I tried to use this code somewhere but I really don't know how:
   query_posts($query_string . '&meta_key=event_end_date&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC');

   Anybody know how to do that?

   Thanks

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

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

3. jumust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks for your suggestion! I'm not so good at php and when I tried to use the query_post I'm able to do very simple things...
   I really can't understand the code I'm using in the home page (I pasted in pastebin in the previous post)

   Do you think this code is good?If so where should I paste it?
   query_posts($query_string . '&meta_key=event_end_date&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC');

   Actually I just copied this code from somewhere else...again I'm not good at all at php :(

   Thanks

4. jumust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   One thing came up on my mind.

   The order from "query" function is for all posts in the page, right?
   What happens if I want to order only posts under one category?
   Actually I'm using a plugin to order/move categories up and down, does it mean I can't order posts under single categories?

   Just to clarify with the plugin I can order categories like:

   Cat 3
   Cat 1
   Cat 5
   Cat 2
   Cat 4

   in the category 3 I have 4 posts:
   Cat 3
   Post 1
   Post 2
   Post 3
   Post 4

   I want to sort those posts by a custom field (event_end_date)

   Is it possible?

   Thanks

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

   global $query_string;
   query_posts($query_string . '&meta_key=event_end_date&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC');

   should do it. If the ordering isn't correct try replacing ASC with DESC.

6. jumust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks but it looks like it didn't make any changes. I tried with ASC and DESC but posts are always in the same position.

   Here is the home page
   http://thisweekinmalibu.com/
   and here is the code with your new code implemented
   home page

   I have these posts whose end date are:
   Feb 14
   Feb 13
   Jan 22

   They look to be sorted ASC but if I change to DESC nothing happens so I just think it doesn'affect the site.

   I really don't know what's happening :(

   Thanks

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

   You need to ensure that your custom field end dates are in yyyy/mm/dd format to enable sorting by the field value.

8. jumust
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ah it sounds a little difficult as I don't know but probably I need to change many things in the theme, and how?

   One thing came up to my mind: I'm using the same custom field to order post in category pages. It can maybe help you to understand what's going on because the code is working there. If I use it in the home page it doesn't, like your code... Here is the archive.php you can see the line 29-41

   Any ideas?

   Thanks

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