Comments on: Take Control Over Post Ordering With Custom Keys

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:30:40 +0000

@Wes – Yes, you can do all sorts of comparisons on the meta data. You just have to make sure that the value of the meta data is in a format that will allow it to sort how you want it to. Dates can be tricky because a value of 11/04/09 won’t sort properly.

By: Wes Bos

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:18:09 +0000

Great post, this will help me out a ton!

Is there a way that will let you list posts that have a meta field that is greater or equal to a variable.

For example, set a variable to get todays time, and only display events that are in the future?

By: juno106

juno106 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:07 +0000

Thanks this is really helpful. I am creating a site for a record company and want to be able to sort their catalog by release date (not post date). I created a custom field called release_date and have been entering the dates like this “November 20, 2003″ I cant figure out how to set the orderby code so it sorts it chronologically. I poured over the codex to no avail. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:14:49 +0000

@Zergaloth – There are a number of paging type plugins on WordPress.org that you could look into, or there is also built in paging functions you can use. You’ll have to make sure you include the “paged” variable in your parameters for query_posts() though otherwise you’ll never be able to get past the first page of posts.

By: Zergaloth

Zergaloth — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:08:54 +0000

Bit of a newbie to all this, but this post has been mighty helpful to me. Bit off topic, but I was wondering now, I’ve limited the number of posts that can be shown, but if the number of posts exceeds that limit, how can I add paging navigation?