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1. Alejandro Urrutia
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi everyone, I am using in my portfolio the following wp_query:

   <?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'work', 'posts_per_page' => 999, 'order' => DESC ) ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
   
   .....

   And it's working perfectly, what I want is to order by "Year" Custom Field Value, of course is a numeric value such as: 2001, 2007 or 2010.

   How can I do it?

   Thanks in advance!
   Best regards.

2. jamespiggot
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Have you tried using orderby=meta_value together with metakey=year

   This will be a alpha rather than numeric sort but with your data values of just year it should work correctly.

   There is some documentation for this in the Codex under query_posts which explains somewhat what is required.

3. Alejandro Urrutia
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi James,

   Thanks for replying and for enlighten the way to find the solution.
   Here's the resulting code for anyone who wants to use it:

   <?php $loop = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'work', 'posts_per_page' => 999, 'meta_key'=>'year',  'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => DESC ) ); while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
   ...

   Regards.

4. ixwa
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Hmm, meta_value_num didn't work for me but meta_value did. Just be sure that orderby is on the same level as post_type etc.

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