Displaying Authors and then Ordering by meta_value

  • Hi Guys,

    I am using wordpress to create a website for a company, they need to have a section for showing off the staff members, those staff members need to be shown in a specific order, so I have added an extra meta value to the user profile called ‘profile_order’… I have checked phpmyadmin and the data has saved correctly to the user_meta table.

    What I am trying to do is call the id of all the users and then sort those via my extra ‘profile_order’ field that I have added… see below for my code… I have tried and tried and tried, but cant see anything that will let me do this ??

    <?php
										$wp_user_search = new WP_User_Query(array( 'fields' => 'ID', 'order' => 'profile_order'));
										$editors = $wp_user_search->get_results();
										print_r($editors);

										foreach ($editors as $editor) { ?>

											<div class="staff-member">
                                            	<h1><a href="<?php bloginfo(url); ?>/author/<?php the_author_meta( 'user_login', $editor ); ?>"><?php the_author_meta( 'first_name', $editor ); ?></a></h1>
                                                <p><?php the_author_meta( 'user_description', $editor ); ?></p>
                                                <?php echo get_avatar( $editor); ?>
                                                <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
                                            </div>
										<?php }
									?>
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  • Try ‘orderby’ instead of ‘order’

    HTH

    David

    Hey David,

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    Any thoughts our help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,

    Daniel

    Hi Daniel,
    It is better to start a new topic, seen as bad form to hi-jack another users topic.

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    If you need more help post a new topic.

    Regards

    David

    Thread Starter simonbrown

    (@simonbrown)

    Thanks for the suggestion David, I had already tried that… unfortunately it doesn’t pick it up…

    There must be someway of calling the meta field to order it ?? racking my brains here…

    Had a quick Google, have a look at this post about sorting by a meta_key, and this one is specific for users

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter simonbrown

    (@simonbrown)

    Thanks david that second one was perfect!!! thankyou, only thing ill mention is that i needed them the oposite order so in the code I switched

    return ($a->profile_order > $b->profile_order) ? -1 : 1;
    to
    `return ($a->profile_order > $b->profile_order) ? 1 : -1;’

    and it worked like a charm

    THANK YOU!

    Great thing Google sometimes you can hit a solution in the first few links!

    Could you mark this topic as resolved please.

    David

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