Reply To: meta_query orderby overwritten by publish date

• vanderduke

• April 23, 2016 at 10:31 am

Hi John, Thanks for replying. The value is stored as a Unix timestamp (seconds since the Unix epoch). So 9am GMT on August 6, 2016 is 1459242000.

I still don’t understand why the WordPress publish date is factoring into this and affecting the sort. Any thoughts?