WP Query and ajax – ordering

Issue Description

When looking at IDF, the request came in to use ajax filtering, and order events by the event date descending, i.e. Future > Present > Past

Tweaking the archive page is straight forward enough;

Using the exact same code in the ajax function wasn’t working – it was ordering by post date.

Much tearing of hair out. Much googling.

Enter: suppress_filters

Code Snippets

$events_args = array(
'post_type'=>'cpt_events',
'orderby'=>'meta_value',
'order'=>'DESC',
'meta_key'=>'event_date',
);

Affected Browsers

all

Issue Type

Back End

Fixed Code Snippets

$events_args = array(
'post_type'=>'cpt_events',
'post_status'=>'publish',
'orderby'=>'meta_value',
'order'=>'DESC',
'meta_key'=>'event_date',
'suppress_filters'=>true
);

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