Title: WP Meta Sort Posts
Author: jasonpitts
Published: <strong>June 25, 2012</strong>
Last modified: June 25, 2012

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# WP Meta Sort Posts

 By [jasonpitts](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasonpitts/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-meta-sort-posts.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-sort-posts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-sort-posts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-sort-posts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-sort-posts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-meta-sort-posts/)

## Description

I initially developed WP Meta Sort Posts plugin because I needed to be able to create
archive-style pages for posts based on custom fields. I quickly realized that it
would be just as easy to knock down all the walls and allow for custom sorted pages
to be created based on any combination of WordPress query variables. WP Meta Sort
Posts is still in its initial beta release and I welcome all feedback and feature
suggestions.

## Installation

**WP Meta Sort Posts Plugin Shortcode Usage**
  Create a new page and include a 
shortcode in the following format:  [msp query_string=”QUERY”]  “QUERY” in the above
example refers to a complete query in URL Query String format. Both public and private
[WordPress query variables](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Query_Vars) can
be passed as long as it is formatted appropriately, e.g.  [msp query_string=”meta_key
=shortcode_test&meta_value=Arizona&orderby=meta_value&order=asc”]  _Notes:_ Do not
URL Encode special characters like spaces to %20. Do not use query variables “paged”
and “offset” in your shortcode because they are automatically calculated and added
to the query string.  If you prefer, you can also pass each argument separately,
e.g.  [msp Argument1=”Value1” Argument2=”Value2” Argument3=”Value3”]  The same query
will be performed as in the first example if the arguments are passed like this.[
msp meta_key=”shortcode_test” meta_value=”Arizona” orderby=”meta_value” order=”asc”]

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WP Meta Sort Posts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ jasonpitts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasonpitts/)

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### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-meta-sort-posts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-meta-sort-posts/),
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## Meta

 *  Version **0.9**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 * Tags
 * [custom fields](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-fields/)[meta](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/meta/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[query vars](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/query-vars/)
   [sort](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sort/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-meta-sort-posts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ jasonpitts ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jasonpitts/)

## Support

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