Thanks for taking the time to read this. I've been struggling with a meta_query for an events site I'm working on.
I have used ACF to create a field for date start and date end, but not all events will have a date.
What I'm trying to achieve, is when you go to the archive or tax view, the first thing you see are the posts that have a date assigned, in order from today's date into the future. Then after those dated events have been output, to cycle through all empty date posts.
So far I have the below in my functions.php file. This kind of works, but in the wrong order. So the correct events that are dated are output and in the right order. But only after the null valued items have output. I thought that may be because of the ordering in the arrays themselves, so moved the date ordered array to the end. That had no effect.
$query->set( 'post_type', 'courses' );
$query->set( 'meta_query', array(
'relation' => 'OR',
array(
'key' => '_course_date_from',
'compare' => '=',
'value' => '',
),
array(
'key' => '_course_date_from',
'compare' => '>=',
'value' => date('Ymd'),
)
) );
$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value title' );
$query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
Thanks for your time. Ben.