Sorting users by a field, not by ID

Question

I basically do this now:

$users = get_users();
sort($users);
foreach ( $users as $user ) {
    echo '<option>' . $user->companyname . '</option>';
}

Except the sort() function will sort by the ID. How can I change it to sort by my custom field companyname?

Answer 1

By passing orderby and order arguments in array.

$args = array( 'orderby' => 'login', 'order' => 'ASC', ); get_users( $args );

orderby - Sort by 'ID', 'login', 'nicename', 'email', 'url', 'registered', 'display_name', 'post_count', 'include', or 'meta_value' (query must also contain a 'meta_key' - see WP_User_Query).

More details : https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_users