How to order adjacent posts (prev / next) by custom field value?
You can filter SQL to change to your condition in get_adjacent_post() ( source ) : $sort = apply_filters( “get_{$adjacent}_post_sort”, “ORDER BY p.post_date $order LIMIT 1” ); Or filter link altogether in adjacent_post_link() ( source ) : echo apply_filters( “{$adjacent}_post_link”, $format, $link ); PS $adjacent can be next or previous.