Reply To: WP_Query orderby date field does not work

• Nox

• December 11, 2018 at 10:12 am

I found the problem and resolved it.

I was using a plugin which re-order the post-type I tried to call.
This plugin is called Reorder-Post-Type.
It seems to apply a filter on all queries that concerns a post-type affected by the plugin, even in your own code.

If you want to prevent that, there’s a parameter that you can add in your query args, called ignore_custom_sort => true, like this :

    $args = array(
        'posts_per_page' => -1,
        'post_type' => 'post',
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'ignore_custom_sort' => true,
        'meta_key' => 'your_custom_field',
        'orderby' => 'meta_value'
    );