How to order by ACF select label instead of value?

• geisleryoung

• January 2, 2020 at 5:47 am

Custom query, trying to sort posts by the state selected on an ACF select field, but using the label instead of the value. Issue is right now I’m getting a few like Wisconsin (WI) coming before West Virginia (WV). Thanks!

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'center',
  'posts_per_page'  => -1,
    'meta_key'          => 'state',
    'orderby'           => 'meta_value',
    'order'             => 'ASC'
);

• John Huebner

• January 4, 2020 at 2:04 am

You cannot use the label to order the fields. The labels are not stored in the meta value, only the values are. In this case your values and labels would need to match.