can't figure out how to order posts by the datepicker

• darrenbachan

• July 28, 2018 at 6:39 am

This is the $args I have set up for my loop:

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘arm_careers’,
‘post_status’ => ‘publish’,
‘posts_per_page’ => -1,
‘meta_key’ => ‘post_date’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’,
);

‘post_date’ being the custom field. What am I doing wrong?

• darrenbachan

• July 30, 2018 at 1:20 pm

Still need help with this. The save and display formats are: “MM d, yy”, for what that’s worth.

• darrenbachan

• August 3, 2018 at 3:18 am

I tried YYYYMMDD and yymmdd and neither works.

• John Huebner

• August 8, 2018 at 12:47 am

I don’t see anything wrong with that query and it should be working. Is the date field in a repeater, of somehow nested in another field that allows nesting?

• danstramer

• August 9, 2018 at 1:03 am

is your custom field date picker called “post_date” – because that is a WP parameter. (better off using a different name)
Also, the orderby for a custom field should be:
'orderby' =>'meta_value_num'

Take a look here:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/date-picker/

Dan