Sorting the portfolio by an ACF? [closed]

Question

I have an advanced custom field attached to every item in my portfolio (its another date) and I want to sort my portfolio by this field. Is this possible? I was hoping you could just swap the orderby for the custom name (which is date_sold) in:

[portfolio items="40" order="DESC" orderby="date_sold" columns="4" generate_thumbnail="true" show_title="true" show_excerpt="true" show_filters="true" filter_display="text" show_pagination="true" show_item_categories="false" link_behavior="detail_page" show_all_text="Show All" paginate="yes" categories="recent"]

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I just did someting like this with my portfolio. Here's what I used to get mine working:

$args = array(
    'post_type' => 'portfolio',
    'posts_per_page' => '-1',
    'meta_key' => 'date_received',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'DESC'

);
remove_all_filters('posts_orderby');
$query = new WP_query($args);

I have a CPT and using ACF datepicker called "date_received". I had a lot of trouble getting the orderby to work, until I added remove_all_filters('posts_orderby');