Sort CPT Post Meta results by ACF sub field value

Anonymous

#272246

Greetings.

I am trying to sort a CPT Post Meta checkbox list that is comprised of peoples’ names. However I want to sort alphabetically by LAST name.

The CPT is post_author. Within each post_author there is a last_name field. I would like to sort my checkbox filter by that last_name field while having each displayed item continue to show the post_author’s Title.

Any ideas? I assume this will be some sort of a custom query that hooks into the plugin, but I have no idea where to start.

Trevor

#272282

I suspect it is possible, but you would likely need the assistance of a third party coder to do this for you.

They would need to use this filter:

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/action-filter-reference/#filter-input-object

Then to take the array variable that holds the output field, and use that to create a new array to replace that with, ordered as required.

It would not be easy, and would likely require making a call to the database to fetch the last_name field values.

This is not something I can help you with further though.

Anonymous

#272351

Thank you Trevor, this is essentially the info I was looking for. I *am* the third party coder but this may be over my head (and not worth the many hours it will take me to do it for the client).

Appreciate the quick response.

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