Sort Posts By Multiple Meta Values

toneburst
(@toneburst)

7 years, 4 months ago
Hi,

I have written a plugin to create a custom post-type. I want to set the default sort-order for posts of this custom type when they display on their own archive page.

I’ve managed to get them to sort by one custom meta key value, but I need them to also be sorted by the value of a second meta key.

I want posts to be sorted by year of graduation (it’s a university alumni site), then by first name.

I can’t seem to get it to work, though I’ve found lots of posts where others are failing to do the same thing.

Here’s the code I have so far:
```
public function majal_pre_get_posts_alumni_sortorder( $query ) {
	if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_post_type_archive( 'majal_alumni' ) && !isset( $_GET['orderby'] ) ) {
		$query->set( 'meta_key', '_majal_alumni_alumnus_graduationyear' );
		$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value' );
		$query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
		$query->set( 'meta_query', array(
			array(
				'key'		=> '_majal_alumni_alumnus_namesecond',
				'orderby'	=> 'meta_value',
				'order'		=> 'ASC'
			)
		));
		$query->set( 'posts_per_page', '16' );
		$query->set( 'paged', true );
	}
}
```
This function is called by the ‘pre_get_posts’ filter hook. I know it’s getting called correctly, as my posts are being correctly sorted on ‘_majal_alumni_alumnus_graduationyear’, but they’re not then being sorted by ‘_majal_alumni_alumnus_namesecond’.

I want posts with identical values for graduationyear to be grouped together, but then sorted by namesecond.

Anyone any ideas?

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(@mr-case)

This is what I used for my custom post types with multiple meta values. I wanted to order first by ‘meta_key_name_1’ and then again by ‘meta_key_name_2’. I think this only works in v4.2+

<?php
    $args = array(
	'post_type' => 'custom_post_type_name',
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'meta_query' => array(
	    'relation' => 'AND',
	    'meta_1' => array(
		'key'     => 'meta_key_name_1'
	    ),
	    'meta_2' => array(
		'key' => 'meta_key_name_2'
	    )
	'orderby' => array(
	    'meta_1' => 'ASC',
	    'meta_2' => 'ASC'
	)
    );
?>

<?php $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>

 //do stuff with posts here

<?php endwhile; wp_reset_query(); ?>

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