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I've read a lot, tried a lot more, but can't get what I want: I have custom post types, which I want to order in DESC, orderby its meta value:

The complete query with its arguments:

wp_reset_query();
$args = array(
            'meta_key'          => 'completeness',
            'order_by'          => 'meta_value_num',
            'posts_per_page'    => -1,
            'order'             => 'DESC',
            'post_type'         => 'datensatz',
            'post_status'       => 'draft'
        );
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $the_query -> have_posts() ):
    while ( $the_query -> have_posts()) : 
        $the_query -> the_post();
        global $post;
        echo get_the_title().':'.get_post_meta( $post->ID, "completeness", TRUE ).'<br/>';
    endwhile;
endif;
wp_reset_query();

This query does not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have just had a look at the last db query by $wpdb->last_query and got this:

 "SELECT post_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_postmeta WHERE post_id IN (206,200,199,198,197,[..]) ORDER BY meta_id ASC" 

So my WP query MUST be wrong...

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  • Do you really need to get draft. I think it should be publish. Also, does your meta key completeness have only numbers?
    – Robert hue
    Oct 28, 2014 at 11:21
  • @Robert hue Yep. I need to get the draft and completeness is a non decimal, numeric value.
    – user998163
    Oct 28, 2014 at 12:01
  • It should be working. Nothing is wrong in it. Why don't you try it step by step and see where is the problem. First add only post_type then add post_status, and so on. Also post complete query.
    – Robert hue
    Oct 28, 2014 at 12:14
  • @Robert hue I did it stepwise. Right now I am on the part with the meat query and it does not work. Have a look at my edit above, there you can see the whole query.
    – user998163
    Oct 28, 2014 at 12:36
  • Why there're two wp_reset_query(); there? Both are wrong by context. Use wp_reset_postdata(); once, only after the WP_Query(), not before it. Oct 28, 2014 at 13:12

1 Answer 1

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Your query seems fine but there are couple of issues. Instead of your code (from wp_reset_query(); to wp_reset_query();) use following code and let us know what is the output.

$new_args = array(
    'post_type'         => 'datensatz',
    'post_status'       => 'draft',
    'posts_per_page'    => -1,
    'meta_key'          => 'completeness',
    'orderby'          => 'meta_value_num',
    'order'             => 'DESC',
);

$my_new_query = new WP_Query( $new_args );

var_dump( $my_new_query->request );

EDIT

Now try this. This should also work.

$new_args = array(
    'post_type'         => 'datensatz',
    'post_status'       => 'draft',
    'posts_per_page'    => -1,
    'meta_key'          => 'completeness',
    'orderby'          => 'meta_value_num',
    'order'             => 'DESC',
);

$my_new_query = new WP_Query( $new_args );

if ( $my_new_query -> have_posts() ) :
    while ( $my_new_query -> have_posts()) : $my_new_query -> the_post();
        echo get_the_title() . ': ' . get_post_meta( $post->ID, "completeness", TRUE ). '<br/>';
    endwhile;
endif;

wp_reset_postdata();
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  • this is what I get: "SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'datensatz' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'draft')) AND (wp_postmeta.meta_key = 'completeness' ) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC "`
    – user998163
    Oct 28, 2014 at 15:06
  • That's working perfectly. No problem in the query. I have made EDIT in my answer, use that instead. And let me know the result.
    – Robert hue
    Oct 28, 2014 at 15:30
  • :Nope, this does not work, they are still not getting sorted by "completeness"....I#ve build a workaround: I write them all into anrray and sort it by subkey. Not the ebst solution but it works.
    – user998163
    Oct 28, 2014 at 15:45
  • If you are getting posts from this query but not sorting is not correct then remove order parameter from above code or change it to ASC
    – Robert hue
    Oct 28, 2014 at 15:48
  • I tried both but it fif not work.
    – user998163
    Oct 28, 2014 at 15:53

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