Question

Well I am working with wordpress and I’m trying to sort some posts by the date custom field that contains a date. Well i can sort the results by date, but I only want to show results that have a date until today. I don’t want to get results from a post that has a future date.

This is the code i’m using:

$querystr = "
            SELECT wposts.*
            FROM $wpdb->posts wposts, $wpdb->postmeta wpostmeta
            WHERE wposts.ID = wpostmeta.post_id
            AND wpostmeta.meta_key = 'date'
            AND wposts.post_status = 'publish'
            AND wposts.post_type = games'
            ORDER BY STR_TO_DATE(wpostmeta.meta_value, '%m/%d/%Y') DESC
            ";

        $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT);

Answer 1

Add this to where clause:

AND STR_TO_DATE(wpostmeta.meta_value, '%m/%d/%Y') <= DATE(NOW())