Fetch collection of posts, ordered by a custom date field

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October 20, 2014 at 2:12 pm #3543
dovetail
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I’m trying to get a collection of posts, ordered by a custom field:

$deadlines = $wf->type(“production_deadline”)->by(“production_deadline_fields.deadline_date”, “ASC”);

The above code doesn’t seem to be working. I also tried this, per one of you posts from a while back:

$deadlines = $wf->type(“production_deadline”)->by(“custom_date”, “ASC”);

(and I added this to functions.php:)
class MY_Post extends MEOW_Post {
function custom_date() {
return $this->field(“production_deadline_fields.deadline_date”);
}
}

That didn’t work either, nor did a number of variations on that theme…

Can you help me figure out how to return a collection of posts of a particular post type ordered by one of its custom fields? I should also mention that the field is a DATE field…

Thanks!

  • This topic was modified 9 years, 11 months ago by dovetail.
October 20, 2014 at 9:57 pm #3545
traversal
Post count: 207

Hey, I’ve just recreated this scenario and it seems to be working fine for me with this code:

https://gist.github.com/traversal/20cfb74a164a4a302646

EDIT: Sorry I had the ordering setup as DESC in this example, but they both worked fine.

Can you try that and let me know if it’s working for you?

Oddly, it isn’t much different to the code you’ve tried. Perhaps one of the field names in your code isn’t quite matching the definition correctly?

Thanks

  • This reply was modified 9 years, 11 months ago by traversal.
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