‘meta_key’ => ‘keyname’ must be part of the query to be able to sort by its value. Unfortunately, that will immediately result in the query being limited to posts where the key is set (its value can be empty, but it must exist). Hence, either consider the method s_ha_dum linked to in the question comments, … Read more
Save the order in a Custom Field, then modify the main query to order on that custom field via pre_get_posts. Example for posts page: function wpa_custom_order( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘meta_key’, ‘your_order_key’ ); $query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘meta_value’ ); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘wpa_custom_order’ );
Thanks to this great tutorial, I just found the answer myself. WordPress offers the action hooks sb_reference_category_add_form_fields, sb_reference_category_edit_form_fields, create_sb_reference_category and edited_sb_reference_category (these are named after the custom taxonomy, in my case sb_reference_category). With these hooks, it is easy as pie to add and save a custom field to the taxonomy.
I just found the answer to this at another Stack… as is always the way when I post a question, it seems. No matter what one does, in regards to pagination in this situation, WP will always go by post date first. I needed to add a function that would use menu_order and found the … Read more
While WordPress does currently support multiple orderby it doesn’t actually support multiple order respectively. This was fixed very recently, see ticket #17065 (Independent ASC/DESC in multiple ORDER BY statement.) and will be available in 4.0 release with new array syntax: ‘orderby’ => array( ‘title’ => ‘DESC’, ‘menu_order’ => ‘ASC’ ).
I think the best way would be to store the complete date-time in one meta field, saving it as an timestamp in the metafield and converting it by php datetime object functions for displaying. Step 1) Create a Metabox with a text input for entering the date + time. You can find a good introduction … Read more
Advanced ordering feature is now added in the new version of WordPress. I came to know this after release of WordPress 4.0. Check this announcement for more detail. Example: $q = new WP_Query( array( ‘orderby’ => array( ‘title’ => ‘DESC’, ‘menu_order’ => ‘ASC’ ) ) );
As @Pat said, pre_get_posts is action hook, it wont work that way. But you don’t need to use pre_get_posts hook in functions.php. Remove this functions and filter from functions file and use these arguments in you WP_Query. orderby instead of ID, use menu_order. $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘bxslider’, ‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, … Read more
As Tom said, you should never use query_posts and should almost always pass any arguments as an array. I think this will achieve what you want: <?php // Arguments $args = array(‘ ‘nopaging’ => true, ‘terms’ => ‘featured’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 15, ‘orderby’ => ‘rand’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘); // The query $the_query = new WP_Query( … Read more
You could use the ‘posts_orderby’ filter: function custom_loops($query) { if ( is_post_type_archive(‘my_post_type’) ){ $query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 40); $query->set( ‘meta_key’, ‘custom_meta_sponsored’); $query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘custom_meta_sponsored’); $query->set( ‘order’, ‘DESC’); add_filter( ‘posts_orderby’, function ( $orderby, $query ) { if ( $query->get( ‘orderby’ ) != ‘custom_meta_sponsored’ ) return $orderby; global $wpdb; $orderby = $wpdb->prepare( ‘CASE WHEN ‘ . $wpdb->postmeta . ‘.meta_value … Read more