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Is there a way for me to sort these posts alphabetically according to the custom field I have defined (last_name)? 

<?php
$page_id = get_the_ID();

$args = array('sort_order'=>'DESC', 'post_type'=>'page', 'child_of'=>$page_id, 'post_status'=>'publish');
$posts_array = get_pages($args);


foreach ($posts_array as $post){
    setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
    <li>
        (post content here)
    </li>
    <?php
}
?>
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Not sure if this help. If you use normal wordpress loop to query post or pages then you can do this by using query_posts

You need to place a line of query_posts before the loop start and it might look something like this ( you might need to add some more parameter for getting only pages in your case )

query_posts($query_string. '&order=DESC&orderby=meta_value&meta_key=last_name')

Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

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  • hmmm... i tried putting that before the loop and it makes the page return nothing. is there something i'm missing?
    – jamie
    Oct 25, 2012 at 17:26
  • ok; i had it in the wrong place. it needs to come after the main page loop becaues this is actually a landing page that pulls in a list of the children pages. this list of children pages is what has to be sorted alphabetically by the custom field value. it is doing nothing when i put it before the $page_id variable.
    – jamie
    Oct 25, 2012 at 18:39

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