Comparing post_date and start_date meta field

• mikehermary

• December 14, 2019 at 6:12 am

Hello,

I have a custom page template that needs to display posts created after a certain date. The start_date custom field value is set using the Date Picker. Various pages will have different start dates that will need to be compared against the post dates. Is there a way to compare a post’s date to the page’s start date? I have included my current code below, but it does not work.

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'sendouts',
    'cat' => '101',
    'post_per_page' => '-1',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'orderby' => 'post_date',
    'meta_key' => 'start_date',
    'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key'=> 'post_date',
            'compare' => '<=',
            'value' => 'start_date',
            'type'=> 'DATETIME'
        )
     ),
);