Orderby ACF custom value

• careyestes

• September 10, 2014 at 2:23 am

I may be doing this incorrectly, or the docs may not be up to date. Either way i wanted to open the topic up for discussion. The docs state to order a query by a custom value created in ACF you use the following:

// args
$args = array(
	'post_type'		=> 'event',
	'posts_per_page'	=> -1,
	'meta_key'		=> 'start_date',
	'orderby'		=> 'meta_value_num',
	'order'			=> 'DESC'
);

// query
$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );

// loop
while( $wp_query->have_posts() )
{
	$wp_query->the_post();

	// ...
}

http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/orde-posts-by-custom-fields/

This does not work for me using ACF Pro v 5.0.7.

However, this does order properly:

'orderby' => 'meta_value',

changing meta_value_num to meta_value.

Did I misunderstand the docs, or is the latter the proper way to do it currently?