Is it possible to sort pages by a field that is within a field group?

• vizi0n

• August 1, 2019 at 3:07 am

Hi,

I usually use just plain fields, but recently discovered the “nested” or “grouped” fields. This is great because it looks much better in the page editing than a single option per line, but I was wondering if it is possible to order a list of post by a nested field?

Example:

I have a parent page called “Boutiques”, and there are 20 child pages (1 for each boutique). I my ACF template I have a group called “parameters” and within this group I have a field called “location”. Is it possible to sort my child pages listing by the field “location” ?

Thanks for your help

• John Huebner

• August 2, 2019 at 10:48 pm

Yes,

'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'meta_key' => 'parameters_location'

• vizi0n

• August 4, 2019 at 2:57 pm

Thanks, but I had tried this already and it doesn’t seem to work. It is still ordering child pages by their number order 🙁

Here is my code if it can help:

$args = array(
    'post_type'      => 'page',
    'posts_per_page' => -1,
    'post_parent'    => '13',
    'order'          => 'ASC',
    'orderby'        => 'meta_key',
    'meta_key'       => 'parameters_location'

 );

$parent = new WP_Query( $args );

if ( $parent->have_posts() ) :

while ( $parent->have_posts() ) : $parent->the_post();

# do this and that and display this and that

endwhile;
endif; wp_reset_postdata();

?>

• vizi0n

• August 4, 2019 at 3:16 pm

aaaah! it’s ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’

it works now 🙂

Thanks

• John Huebner

• August 4, 2019 at 11:48 pm

oops, sorry for the error

• vizi0n

• August 5, 2019 at 4:42 am

Can you edit your reply, I will mark it as solution

• John Huebner

• August 5, 2019 at 9:42 pm

I edited my reply to be correct