Order cpt by custom field

• 

  • lpotadle

  • April 5, 2019 at 4:48 am

  I have been trying to figure this out for a while now. I create a custom post type for speakers and created custom fields for first name and last name. I want to order the posts alphabetically by the custom field last name. Currently it is just ordering it by post creation date. Here is what I have

  <?php 
  $speaker_list = new WP_Query(array(
      'post_type'		=> 'speakers',
      'posts_per_page'    => -1,
      'meta_key'		=> 'last_name', 
      'tax_query'         => array(
  	array(
  	  'taxonomy' 	=> 'speaker_type',
  	  'terms'    	=> 'faculty',
  	),
       ), 
      'orderby' 		=> 'meta_value', 
      'order' 		=> 'ASC',
  )); ?>
  
  <?php if ( $speaker_list->have_posts() ) : ?>
      <?php while ( $speaker_list->have_posts() ) : $speaker_list->the_post(); ?>
  
  		<!-- Displays the speaker info -->
  
      <?php endwhile; 
      wp_reset_postdata();
  else : ?>
      <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
  <?php endif; ?>