Sort by custom field

• SRD

• September 25, 2016 at 12:05 am

Hi,

Is there a way to sort by custom field?

I have a HTML table with each TH being the custom field label, and each row being a custom post type’s custom field values.

Thanks,
Steve

• John Huebner

• September 25, 2016 at 12:28 am

See this WP post about meta query clauses https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/03/30/query-improvements-in-wp-4-2-orderby-and-meta_query/

• SRD

• September 25, 2016 at 3:56 pm

Thanks John.

My theme’s front-page.php contains the code here: http://pastebin.com/VfMKBjq2

I don’t understand how to make something like <th>Model:</th> into a hyperlink which sorts by custom field model.

• John Huebner

• September 25, 2016 at 10:25 pm

Ad the bottom of this page https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/query-posts-custom-fields/ there is a section on Dynamic $_GET parameters. Basically you’d have to generate your own links adding something like ?model=XYZ to each URL and then set up a pre_get_posts filter to alter the WP query for the page to get what you want and sort it.