Hi
I got a little problem. I have a page for our Team and added a custom Field with acf to add an id that i can use to sort the members in a list. The field works as i can display it in the post_type “team” but the sorting does not work as expected.
As a recsource for the code i used: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/order-posts-by-custom-fields/
The Posts still get sorted by publishing date.
<?php
$the_query = new WP_Query(array(
"post_type" => "team",
"posts_per_page" => -1,
"meta_key" => "team_id",
"meta_type" => "numeric",
"orderby" => "meta_key",
"order" => "DESC",
"post_status" => "publish"
));
if ( $the_query -> have_posts() ) : ?>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<?php if ( $the_query -> have_posts() ) : $i = 0;
while ( $the_query -> have_posts() ) : $the_query -> the_post(); $i ++;
print $team_id;the_field("team_id");
if ( $i % 2 === 0 ) : ?>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
</div>
output
0 1
2 3
4 5
6 7
14 8
9 10
12 11
13
As you can see the #14 is right in the middle of the list but should be at the end.
And yes i know the code is not very nice but i am only adjusting a template that is a couple of years old.
Any hint why it is not working is highly appreciated!
<?php
$the_query = new WP_Query(array(
"post_type" => "team",
"posts_per_page" => -1,
"meta_key" => "team_id",
"orderby" => "meta_value_num",
"order" => "ASC",
"post_status" => "publish"
));?>
This does work as intended.
