Sorting posts, per category, by priority

Okay – I’m making some headway here.

I’m thinking that I can use the custom fields – set to “Priority” and set the value (1 through 9) per post.

Then – and this is where I get a bit lost – I can use the

query_posts('meta_key=priority&meta_value=1');

or use the meta_compare – I’m not sure…

I could then, if I am not mistaken, push all the posts with the “1” value to the homepage. That is part of the solution.

What I want to do, and don’t know how to modify the query_posts statement – is display the posts ranked by meta_key value. So that all the “1” posts are first, then followed by “2”, etc…

So little help with that code would be greatly appreciated! ??

Thanks!

Does:

query_posts('meta_key=priority&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC');

Work?

xdesi – it does appear to be doing what I want!!! Thanks so much!

Nice one ??

Okay – let’s try to take this a step further if possible. The above system is working perfectly – but I would like for each new post to have a default meta_key – meta_value of 5 for the priority custom field.

So that when bringing up the new post dialog the custom field is already set to “priority” and the value is set to “5”

Asking too much? ??

Thanks!