Reply To: Sorting posts by custom field's custom order

• Etic

• August 24, 2014 at 8:18 am

It would be this way (notice the orderby and meta_key properties):

$facultys = get_posts(array(
	'post_type’ => 'faculty’,
	'order’ => 'ASC’,
	'orderby' => 'meta_value', 
	'meta_key' => 'role'
	'meta_query’ => array(
		array(
			'key’ => 'location’,
			'value’ => ”,
			'compare’ => 'LIKE’,
		),
		array(
			'key’=> 'role’,
			'value’ => ”,
			'compare’ => 'LIKE’,
		)
	)
));

But, it seems that you want to order the post in a specific custom order which is not alphabetical or numerical (I’m saying that because ‘Assistant Teacher’ is after ‘Teacher’, while the rest are in a alpha order). In that case, you should create four get_posts queries (it could be the same in a loop, only changing the role value), each query with the specific role.

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