Sort Query by Unrelated Custom Field

• birdwell

• July 17, 2015 at 7:22 am

I have searched and read the WP documentation, but I just can’t seem to wrap my head around how to accomplish this. I have a query based on one custom field team_member_type, and it outputs all the people and I have it separated into sections based on the type of team member they are… but I want it to then sort each of those sections by the persons last name, which I have setup in a custom field team_member_last_name.

I’m not using meta_query because I don’t want to associate the two custom fields with AND or OR cause that’s unrelated to pulling my query. I only need the last name field to orderby.

$args = array(
	'posts_per_page' => -1,
	'post_type' => 'team-member',
	'meta_key' => 'team_member_type',
	'meta_value' => array(
				'Scientist or Technical',
				'Administrator',
				'Student'
			),
	'orderby' => 'title',
	'order' => 'ASC'
);

$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

• John Huebner

• July 18, 2015 at 9:47 am

Did you get this sorted out while finding the answer to the other question?
http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/get-count-of-same-values-in-an-array/

• birdwell

• July 18, 2015 at 12:14 pm

Hi @hube2, yes your other response made it easier since I was able to use two queries. Thanks again.