Hello,
First let me apologize because I know this has been asked a million times but I have been wracking my brain around this for countless hours now and can’t get it. I have tried the examples in the documentation as well as answers provided here in the forum. So I have a portfolio page that queries the attachments post type filters them by taxonmy, with a specific term applied to them. I created a custom field the help with sorting the images on the portfolio in a finer method then date, title etc. The field is just a text field nothing fancy.
Here is my query:
<?php
$sort = the_field('vehicle_sort_order');
$args = new WP_Query(array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_status' => 'any',
'post_parent' => null,
//'meta_query' => array(
// array(
// 'key' => 'vehicle_sort_order',
// 'compare' => 'IN',
// 'value' => $sort,
// 'type' => 'CHAR'
// )
//),
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'vehicle'
)
),
'oderby' => 'meta_value',
'order' => 'DESC'
));
while ( $args->have_posts() ) : $args->the_post();
?>
If I uncomment the lines that are commented nothing displays. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I feel like I am missing something very simple.
I ended up changing my query to get_posts
<?php
// get posts
$posts = get_posts(array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_status' => 'any',
'post_parent' => null,
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'post_tag',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'vehicle'
)
),
'meta_key' => 'vehicle_sort_order',
'orderby' => 'meta_value date',
'order' => 'DESC'
));
?>
This works, but still curious as to why the WP_Query I initially had wasn’t working.
