• Bizz

• in reply to: How to order by date field
• February 6, 2020 at 9:25 am

After looking on the internet for the last 4 hours, I finally figure it out. You have to put the orderby metadata first, then add a meta_query array to filter through the posts.

$args = array (
    'post_type' => 'route',
        'meta_key' => 'trip_start_date',
        'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'meta_query' => array(
            array(
                'meta_key'  => 'route_status',
                'compare'   => '=',
                'value'     => 'not-yet-launched',
            ),
        ),
        'posts_per_page' => '9',
);