Orderby parameter not working in WP_Query

[tplante]

I have a Mexin Child Theme and I’m trying to order posts by a custom field. I have done this for many other websites without any issues, but can’t get it to work with this child theme. I also can’t get a simple ascending order to work, it all seems to be overridden and posts of any kind sort by post date (descending). Here is my code:

$args = array(
‘post_type’ => ‘ocean-expeditions’,
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’,
‘meta_key’=> ‘year’
);
$the_query = new WP_Query($args);
?>
<div class=”ocean-exp-wrap headlines-wrap”>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while ($the_query->have_posts()) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
• <div class=”blog-date-sec”>
  <span><?php the_field(‘month’); ?></span>
  <h3><?php the_field(‘year’); ?></h3>
  </div>
  <?php the_field(‘image’); ?>
  <h3>“><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
  <div class=”headline-description”>
  <?php echo custom_field_excerpt(); ?>
  </div>
  <p class=”read”>“>Read More →</p>

<hr>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div>

I appreciate any and all help you can provide! Thanks!

[Slavi Marinov]

Hi,

This is related to our plugin, however, you can find how to sort by meta value by going to this link:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/15477/custom-query-with-orderby-meta-value-of-custom-field

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