Adding a new orderby= function

Might look at Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query and adjust the code accordingly.

Also, Otto has info for adding an orderby value to query_posts in this thread:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/157515?replies=5#post-699291

Thanks, I’ll check those out.

Fantastic, I got it working with the following code:

<ul class="crewlist">
				<?php
					 $querystr = "
						SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts
						LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id)
						LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id)
						LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
						WHERE $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id = 4
						AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
						AND $wpdb->posts.post_status = 'publish'
						AND $wpdb->postmeta.meta_key = 'crew_order'
						ORDER BY $wpdb->postmeta.meta_value ASC
						LIMIT 9
					";
					  $crew_order = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);
					?>
<?php if ($crew_order): ?>
  <?php foreach ($crew_order as $post): ?>
    <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>
				<li><?php if ($currentId!==$post->ID) { ?><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?php } else { ?><?php the_title(); ?><?php } ?></li>
  <?php endforeach; ?>
  <?php endif; ?>
				</ul>

Is there any way to get it to auto paginate once the LIMIT has been reached?

Thanks so much for the help.

Regarding pagination –
I found some great help from Aesqe here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/154300?replies=7

But I can’t get it working with the Paginav plugin. Anyone have any thoughts?