Sort by Meta Value?

  • Resolved swcomm

    (@swcomm)


    2 years, 10 months ago

    Hi – looking at ways to display posts from one site to another on a multisite. But, these posts need to be sorted alpha by a meta value – not seeing that option in your plugin? Is that true, or am I missing something?

    Thanks in advance – otherwise, your plugin would be perfect for what I need!

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  • Plugin Author johnzenausa

    (@johnzenausa)

    Hi @swcomm ;

    Are you talking about a numerical meta value like one placed in a custom field?

    If so I don’t have anything like that directly but you could use acf to create a custom field called date and use that as your meta value. So each post can be given a later date so it will order by that.

    So you would create a custom field called date picker and for each post choose a date and it will list by that order in ascending or descending fashion.

    Here would be the shortcode attribute:

    order_post_by_acf_date='acf_field_name asc'

    or

    order_post_by_acf_date='acf_field_name desc'.

    If these don’t work let me know and I’ll see if I could implement an attribute as such.

    order_post_by_custom_field='name_of_custom_field'.

    I’m assuming these custom numerical values are being dynamically created.

    Are these meta values going to be a number? If so it can only be possible if it’s simple text (numeric or alphabetic) and not a complex string.

    An example of what kind of meta value would be helpful.

    We have order by title with the following argument:

    order_post_by='date_order', order_post_by='alphabetical_order', order_post_by='page_order'.

    Other than that if I understood you correctly did you want to order meta value alphabetically or numerically?

    Please let me know. Thank You.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by johnzenausa. Reason: Questioning about what type of meta_value
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by johnzenausa.
    Thread Starter swcomm

    (@swcomm)

    Thanks for the reply. They are ACF fields, but not numeric or date fields. They’re text fields, to enable sorting posts alphabetically by a last name ACF custom field.

    Plugin Author johnzenausa

    (@johnzenausa)

    Okay wait for the next update please.

    Thread Starter swcomm

    (@swcomm)

    Thanks so much!

    Plugin Author johnzenausa

    (@johnzenausa)

    @swcomm

    Please try the latest update and see if it works as you would like.

    The argument to add to the shortcode is the following:

    order_by_acf='field_name asc' or order_by_acf='field_name desc'

    Thread Starter swcomm

    (@swcomm)

    Hi – thank you. I’ve switched gears to another project so it may be a day or two before I get back to this. I’ll be back in touch ASAP.

    Plugin Author johnzenausa

    (@johnzenausa)

    Okay it’s there if need be.

    Thread Starter swcomm

    (@swcomm)

    Hi – finally finished this project and the meta sort works perfectly. Thanks so much!

    Plugin Author johnzenausa

    (@johnzenausa)

    Okay thank you.

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