Reply To: Sort CPT entries by an ACF field

• John Huebner

• October 11, 2021 at 9:09 am

your need to see if orderby is in the url query. This cannot be done by looking at $query->get( 'orderby'); because by the time of pre_get_posts WP has already set it to the default of date in the admin.

if (empty($_GET['orderby'])) {
  // set default orderby
}