Title: Sort posts by a custom field
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Sort posts by a custom field

 *  Resolved [jbx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbx/)
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 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-posts-by-a-custom-field/)
 * Is there a way to sort the posts by a custom field?
 * My posts have a custom `event_date` field and I would like to sort the posts 
   by this field rather than the published date.
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-posts-by-a-custom-field/)
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