Order articles posts by custom field

Dear,

I would like to switch my joomla site to wordpress but I am facing a problem.
I added a custom field with ACF (Advanced Custom Fields)

I would like to sort my posts by date of the event and not by date of publication.

my custom field is: start event

I added the get-post in my file
wp-content> theme> template_child> functions.php

$posts = get_posts(array(
	'post_type'			=> 'event',
	'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
	'meta_key'			=> 'start_event',
	'orderby'			=> 'meta_value',
	'order'				=> 'DESC'
));

if( $posts ): ?>
	
	<ul>
		
	<?php foreach( $posts as $post ): 
		
		setup_postdata( $post )
		
		?>
		<li>
			<a>"><?php the_title(); ?> (date: <?php the_field('start_event'); ?>)</a>
		</li>
	
	<?php endforeach; ?>
	
	</ul>
	
	<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

but it doesn’t work.

Can someone tell me which code to paste and where because I have no control over coding.

Thanks a lot!!!!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: code fixed

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