Sort Posts With The Help Of Custom Fields

Alex — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:43:33 +0000

Quite often, a WordPress developer likes to have posts sorted according to a custom field. If you would write a SQL-statement, it would be quite complex, since you need to JOIN two database tables (wp_posts und wp_postmeta).

But there is a much easier way, if you use the template tags provided by WordPress - in our case we use the function query_posts. Below you can see an example, which includes a custom field in the query, and also sort the posts with the help of this custom field. A short, easy to understand code with effective result:

query_posts('meta_key=my_day&meta_compare=<=&meta_value=20&orderby=meta_value&order=DESC');

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Sort Posts With The Help Of Custom Fields

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