Question

So I have a custom post type called “Events”. In each event, i have a custom field called “start_time_date” which returns a date like “08/01/12”. How would i sort these posts to return the posts so that the posts are sorted by the start_time_date in an ascending order (start_time_dates closer to current date gets shown first).

Here’s my current code:

<? query_posts("cat=$currentID&showposts=100"); ?>
<? if ( have_posts() ) : ?>
    <? while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); if (time() < strtotime(get('end_time_date'))) :?>

       <? $originalDate = get('start_time_date'); $newDate = date("M j, Y", strtotime($originalDate)); ?>
       <div class="post">Some Post Data</div>

    <? endif; endwhile; ?>
<? endif; ?>

Answer 1

Did you try something like:

<? query_posts("cat=$currentID&showposts=100&orderby=date&order=asc"); ?>

I am not sure what exactly date is in the database columns but it’s something like that. Also, the order might need to but changed but I don’t think it matters.

Edit

I did some more research and &orderby=date&order=asc is correct for the date and ordering.

Sorry about that, did you read through Displaying Posts Using a Custom Select Query in the WordPress codex?

They also added query_posts('&meta_key=popularity&orderby=meta_value'); where meta_key is the name of your custom field.

Found here: Class Reference/WP Query