Reply To: Ordering by Custom Field That Stores JSON

• John Huebner

• August 7, 2018 at 9:54 pm

If it’s an ACF field it does not store JSON. ACF fields that contain arrays store serialized values.

There isn’t WP_Query() on fields like these and the best option is what you suggest, store the value you want to search and filter on into it’s own meta_key.