Support Forum - Topic: CPT order the loop by meta date

Support Forum - Topic: CPT order the loop by meta date http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/cpt-order-the-loop-by-meta-date Support Forum - Topic: CPT order the loop by meta date en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 07:13:07 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.kriesi.at/support/search.php Mya on "CPT order the loop by meta date" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/cpt-order-the-loop-by-meta-date#post-58551 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:50:13 +0000 Mya 58551@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ Glad it works! Let us know if you have more questions. Regards, Mya maratino on "CPT order the loop by meta date" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/cpt-order-the-loop-by-meta-date#post-58540 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:49:09 +0000 maratino 58540@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ this works: global $avia_config, $post_loop_count, $wp_query; $meta_sorting = array( 'meta_key' => 'ecpt_datum', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'ASC' ); $avia_config['new_query'] = array_merge($wp_query->query, $meta_sorting); Dude on "CPT order the loop by meta date" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/cpt-order-the-loop-by-meta-date#post-57535 Fri, 25 May 2012 11:57:49 +0000 Dude 57535@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ You can use orderby => "date" if it's a standard date. Otherwise, if it's a meta value, it's not possible out of the box and requires some custom code. I think this thread: <a href="http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/15839/wordpress-how-to-sort-by-meta-value" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/15839/wordpress-how-to-sort-by-meta-value</a> is a good starting point. maratino on "CPT order the loop by meta date" http://www.kriesi.at/support/topic/cpt-order-the-loop-by-meta-date#post-57269 Wed, 23 May 2012 20:24:11 +0000 maratino 57269@http://www.kriesi.at/support/ i am using the easy content types plugin on a childthemed coherence site. i have an archive template with "get_template_part( 'includes/loop', 'termine' );" i've created a copy /wp-content/themes/coherence/includes/loop-index.php valled loop-termine.php to show my cpt and pull my meta fields. i have a custom date as timestamp. is there an easy way to change the order of the loop to that date? like passing an "orderby" => "ecpt_date". $avia_config['new_query']...