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I would like to order posts by custom date field, and also I would like to display only posts from one category. Here is the code that I have which does none of those things (instead it shows all the posts from all the catgeories, and they are ordered by published date, not the custom date):
<?php
/*
* Order Posts based on Date Picker value
* this example expects the value to be saved in the format: yymmdd (JS) = Ymd (PHP)
*/
$posts = get_posts(array(
'meta_key' => 'event_date', // name of custom field
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'ASC',
'cat' => '23'
));?>
<?php if (query_posts($posts)) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<div class="entry">
<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'whatson-thumb' ); ?>
<h2 class="pagetitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/meta.php' ); ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<!--<div class="postmetadata">
<?php //the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
<span class="category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span>
<?php //comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>
</div>-->
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<?php //include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/nav.php' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<h2>Not Found</h2>
<?php endif; ?>
Will this work with get_posts as well? I have a similar issue what I want to display all the posts with the category “event” and I want to order them based on Advanced custom field called event_date. Here is how I want to display each post:
<div class="home-post-area">
<div class="home-post-image">
<?php the_post_thumbnail('', array('class' => 'img-responsive')); ?>
<div class="home-post-image-overlay">
<h3><?php the_field('event_date'); ?> <?php the_field('event_price'); ?></h3>
<h4><?php the_title();?></h4>
</div>
</div>
<div class="home-post-content">
<?php the_excerpt();?>
<p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><atrong>>> MORE</atrong></a></p>
</div>
</div>
Thank you! The problem must have been with the way I wrote the loop, now it works fine and the category is displayed properly too now.
Use the code that Mathias suggested, and place your code after:
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
$the_query->the_post();
you can break the php to place your html like this:
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
$the_query->the_post(); ?>
<!-- your code here -->
<?php } } else { ?>
<h2>Not Found</h2>
<?php //endif; ?>
<?php } ?>
<?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
Excellent. It works! So what if I want to only display events with an event_date that is on or after the current date?
I think this should help (bottom of the page):
http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/field-types/date-picker/
Ok, tried this:
<?php
$today = date('MM d, yy');
$args = array (
'post_type' => 'post',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'meta_key' => 'event_date',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => $today,
),
array(
'meta_key' => 'event_date',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'ASC',
'cat' => '2'
)
),
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $the_query->have_posts() ) {
$the_query->the_post(); ?>
But it does not return the correct result. It shows all the events.
Can you please unmark this answer as Private? I’m trying to see your answer to help solve my issue, but for whatever reason you will not let others see it.
@zchmm Yea I agree..
I don’t see how a private answer on a forum post is in any way useful to anyone. I’d say it actually went against the entire point of forum question and answer support.
This is a very important topic. I agree with @juliusbangert and @zchmm. This shouldn’t be marked as private. ¬¬
This answer marked as private, so this is my contribution:
<?php
global $wpdb;
$posts = $wpdb->get_results( '
SELECT
wp_posts.ID,
wp_posts.post_title,
wp_posts.post_content
FROM wp_posts
INNER JOIN wp_postmeta
ON wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id
WHERE
wp_postmeta.meta_key = "your_acf_date_var"
AND wp_posts.post_type = "your_post_type"
AND wp_posts.post_status = "publish"
GROUP BY wp_posts.ID
ORDER BY wp_postmeta.meta_value ASC
' );
foreach ( $posts as $key => $value ) {
var_dump( $value->post_title );
}
?>
After looking on the internet for the last 4 hours, I finally figure it out. You have to put the orderby metadata first, then add a meta_query array to filter through the posts.
$args = array (
'post_type' => 'route',
'meta_key' => 'trip_start_date',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
'order' => 'ASC',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'meta_key' => 'route_status',
'compare' => '=',
'value' => 'not-yet-launched',
),
),
'posts_per_page' => '9',
);
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