Reply To: need to select first item in meta_value array to sortby

• Elliot

• January 4, 2014 at 11:57 am

Hi @crushdg

I don’t understand what you mean by:
Currently the ‘orderby’ will not work because it’s an array, so want it to look at just the first value in the array to ‘orderby’.

Your code shows:
'orderby' => 'meta_value', – this is NOT an array. This is a string telling WP to order your posts by the meta_value of the field defined in the param:
'meta_key' => 'application_type',

Are you trying to say that the value for ‘application_type’ is an array?

If so, then no, there is no way for the WP_Query object to correctly order the posts on the custom field value, instead. You will need to order the posts with some custom logic AFTER you load the posts.

Hope that helps.

Thanks
E