Reply To: meta_query orderby overwritten by publish date

• John Huebner

• April 23, 2016 at 11:40 am

if schedule_time_start stores a unix time stamp, then there isn’t any reason for the post date to have anything to do with the sort order, so I’m completely confused.

I would probably add a filter on the query and log them to see what is actually being run

add_filter('query', 'log_query');
// do your query
remove_filter('query', 'log_query');

function log_query($query) {
  error_log($query);
  return $query;
}

This will put the query into the error log. You may need to turn on error logging in WP, but I’m not sure about that.