Sorting custom admin column by value
Ah, the remedy was a simple one: function issue_column_orderby( $vars ) { if ( isset( $vars[‘orderby’] ) && ‘linked_issue_post’ == $vars[‘orderby’] ) { $vars = array_merge( $vars, array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘article_issue_n’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’ ) ); } return $vars; } add_filter( ‘request’, ‘issue_column_orderby’ ); I probably omitted something before…