I need to show a list of custom-posts sorted by a custom-field “deadline”. The custom field “deadline” is returning the date with the format “d.m.Y”.
I actually use the following code but the order of the posts is wrong and has no pattern i can decipher. How can i create a query where i can sort the output by a custom field of the type “date”?
My arguments:
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'club_tasks',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'meta_key' => 'deadline',
'orderby' => 'meta_value',
'order' => 'DESC'
);
Thank you so much for your help!
I use this i a theme:
$date_now = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// WP_Query arguments
$args = array(
'posts_per_page' => 3,
'post_type' => 'post',
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'end_date',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => $date_now,
'type' => 'DATETIME'
)
),
'order' => 'ASC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'meta_key' => 'end_date',
'meta_type' => 'DATE'
);
// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
I’m having the same problem. The docs say to use the original poster’s approach, which does not work. Any updates? Setting meta_type does not work for me either.
SOLVED
The “update” is, check my work for freakin typos! /tears
Carry on…
