Reply To: Custom field as 'orderby' value causes post grouping by publish date

• John Huebner

• October 30, 2015 at 11:40 am

By the sounds of it sort_name is a text field. orderby=meta_value_num WP converts the text field to a number so they all == 0. WP then sorts them by the default order which is by post date. try orderby=meta_value.