post_object/query orderby meta_value

• robmaurizi

• July 26, 2014 at 2:12 am

Hi- I’m trying to order a list of post objects by a meta_value of date, but the order seems to be forcing itself to ID (I’ve tried both meta_value and meta_value_num for the orderby arg:

	$today = date("Y-m-d");

	$args['meta_query'] = array(
		array(

			'key' => 'date',
			'value' => $today,
			'compare' => '>=',
			'type' => 'DATE'
		)
	);
	$args['orderby'] = 'meta_value_num';
	$args['order'] = 'ASC';
	
	return $args;

but the select list is coming back as:

<select id="acf-field-featured_event" class="post_object" name="fields[field_53d277027125c]">
<option value="null">- Select -</option>
<option value="96">2014-07-31 : TURPIS M   ESSA ODEM Suspendisse et FRULLA OPERTED USUELDOL BASED MOLLE TURPIS MESSA ODEM Suspendisse</option>
<option value="154">2014-07-29 : Another Event</option>
<option value="166">2014-07-26 : Past Event now in the Future</option>
</select>

Is this a bug or am I doing it wrong?

Any insight would be great…

Thanks!
-Rob