Title: Order by meta values
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Order by meta values

 *  Resolved [x1code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secretja/)
 * (@secretja)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-by-meta-values/)
 * I have 3 meta fields related to dates.
    One is; year = 2012 Second is; release_date
   = 14 November 2012 And last is; release_date_db = 20121114
 * I need to show posts from year 2012 sorted by release_date.
 * I made this for now;
 *     ```
       query_posts('meta_key=year&meta_value=2012&order=ASC&posts_per_page=7');
       ```
   
 * How can I order posts and by release_date or release_date_db ?
 * THX

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-by-meta-values/#post-3090162)
 * See:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/query_posts)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query)
 *  Thread Starter [x1code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secretja/)
 * (@secretja)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-by-meta-values/#post-3090281)
 * THX
 * This helped me to get it working [Link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8856553/wordpress-custom-field-date-display-post-with-custom-date-current-in-ascendin)

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## Tags

 * [meta_key](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta_key/)
 * [meta_value)](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/meta_value/)
 * [order](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/order/)
 * [orderby](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/orderby/)
 * [wp_query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp_query/)

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 * Last reply from: [x1code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secretja/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/order-by-meta-values/#post-3090281)
 * Status: resolved

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