order by ACF not working

• tudor002

• August 20, 2021 at 10:42 am

Hello,
I want to order some posts by download number desc, and it seems the articles are random displayed:

$posts = get_posts(array(
‘post_type’ => ‘post’,
‘posts_per_page’ => 12,
‘meta_key’ => ‘post_views_count’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
));

But strange, the mysql querry works just fine:
SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘post_views_count’ ORDER BY meta_value DESC

Any help is apperciated, thanks

• John Huebner

• September 16, 2021 at 3:54 pm

How is ‘post_views_count’ updated?

is this field a sub field of another field?

Have you echoed out this value for each post to see if they are order by this value?