I was actually able to find a work-around using an Elementor add-on posts grid widget. Works like a charm with a custom post type since i only needed to pull in the permalink of the posts. Thanks again for your help!
It’s for better display and organization, yes.
I’m not sure I want to pass on a Pro yearly cost to my client that they would have to maintain just for this one use. Would a repeater work if this particular custom field is a relationship field pulled from another custom post type (doctors)?
This is what I am trying to achieve, or something like it:
Thanks for your help James! I worked out a solution using pre_get_posts to get the order working properly.
To be honest I really have never done a var_dump before. I’ve looked into it and tried a few things but can’t seem to get it to work the way it needs to. It just dumps out a bunch of data I can read but not make much sense of. Then below it spits out the content in DESC order.
This is my var_dump. I know it’s not right but I don’t know how to get it to where I need it and I’m not even sure it’s placed properly in the template. I’ve placed it just inside the custom loop function and before the query args:
$myVar = get_posts();
var_dump ($myVar);
If it helps, some background…. I have a page called “Executive” and a custom category template to display it. The template displays content from a regular post category called “Executive”. The posts’ content is created using 3 ACF fields. All of the content displays fine when the default DESC order is used but when I switch it to ASC order, it fails and no post content is displayed (global header, footer etc display fine). The reason I need ASC order is because the content doesn’t follow any alphabetical or other priority order, just the date each post was input. Yes, I could re-enter all the posts in backwards sequence and use DESC order but what’s the fun in that? 🙂
“Date” is the WP default post_date not an ACF field. I know it doesn’t need to be there since it’s a default, I just added it as part of my debugging as I was trying out other values.
My site is currently local and I am not at the office right now so I will try the var_dump later and see what comes up.
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