Order CPT by custom field

After successfully creating and running the td_api_plugin to display a Block of Custom Post Type “event” I need to order it using custom field “event_date”.

I have tried adding:


'meta_key' => '',
'orderby' => '',
'order' => ''


to $atts and assigned values to it:


$this->atts['meta_key'] = event_date;
$this->atts['orderby'] = event_date;
$this->atts['order'] = DESC;


The params are reflected correctly when I print_r($this->atts); inside td_block.php:

Array ( [limit] => 5 [sort] => [post_ids] => [tag_slug] => [autors_id] => [installed_post_types] => event [category_id] => [category_ids] => [custom_title] => NEXT EVENTS [custom_url] => [show_child_cat] => [sub_cat_ajax] => [ajax_pagination] => [header_color] => #000000 [header_text_color] => [ajax_pagination_infinite_stop] => [td_column_number] => 2 [td_ajax_preloading] => preload [td_ajax_filter_type] => td_tag_slug_filter [td_ajax_filter_ids] => 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 90 [td_filter_default_txt] => All [color_preset] => [border_top] => [class] => td_uid_14_5822ad4fd6f60_rand [offset] => [css] => [live_filter] => [live_filter_cur_post_id] => [live_filter_cur_post_author] => [meta_key] => event_date [orderby] => event_date [order] => DESC ) Array ( [limit] => 6 [sort] => [post_ids] => [tag_slug] => [autors_id] => [installed_post_types] => post [category_id] => [category_ids] => [custom_title] => CONTENIDO [custom_url] => [show_child_cat] => [sub_cat_ajax] => [ajax_pagination] => next_prev [header_color] => #1e73be [header_text_color] => [ajax_pagination_infinite_stop] => [td_column_number] => 2 [td_ajax_preloading] => [td_ajax_filter_type] => td_category_ids_filter [td_ajax_filter_ids] => 72, 71, 37, 25, 29 [td_filter_default_txt] => All [color_preset] => [border_top] => [class] => td_uid_20_5822ad5005c1c_rand [offset] => [css] => [live_filter] => [live_filter_cur_post_id] => [live_filter_cur_post_author] => [meta_key] => event_date [orderby] => event_date [order] => DESC )

But the order of the posts is never altered. Has anyone dealt with this issue before? Any help will be very appreciated!

Did you ever get a solution to this? I’m trying to get any of the blocks to sort by date from the Events Calendar, and I’m running into the same issue.

We haven’t got to any satisfactory solution yet. But we found an (ugly and cumbersome) workaround while we get to it: order your post by the regular publication date and give every event a publication date exactly one year earlier. This way your events will be ordered by date (earlier first) and you just have to either a) delete events with past event dates or b) avoid their display by modifying the block.

We are using the td-plugin method and fiddled with the display (option b) so this is working fine on web.asdeporte.com if you want to see it working.

Cheers!

Ok…forget about The Event Calendar. Do you have any means of displaying the built in Events within wordpress by event date order? If I can see that, I’ll know how to go and fix this.

I went looking through the samples, and coudn’t find any examples of Events treated in this way.

I’m frankly utterly shocked. If the nature of the theme is newspapers, being able to promote/list events is one of the most basic functions. And doing so would always be by soonest to latest.

Ben