This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.
Problem: I have a View of Products that should be ordered by a custom field on the Products post, but the order of posts does not seem to be correct based on the custom field value.
Solution: Our developers have issued a patch for this problem in Views 3.5.1 / Blocks 1.5.1, and the issue will be solved in the next release of the plugins. To solve the problem in Views 3.5.1 / Blocks 1.5.1, you have two options:
- Create a Query Filter based on this custom field, where the field value is not empty or not equal to a blank value.
- Apply the patch to the Toolset Views plugin or the Toolset Blocks plugin as described in the comments below.
The issue will be addressed in the next release of Views/Blocks, and the workarounds mentioned here will no longer be required once the plugins are updated.
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Last updated by 3 years, 8 months ago.
Assisted by: Christian Cox.
I am trying to: order listings by last name (which is a custom field, specifically set for this purpose).. capture.png
Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link (capture2.png)
I expected to see: ordered by last name (capture4.png). Capture3.png shows my test site which is not yet updated to the newer version of toolset views which is causing the issue.
Instead, I got: some sort of random order.
Okay I believe I have a temporary fix for this issue in place on Test. I have edited the View here:
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I added a Query Filter based on the Last Name (Ordering) field, such that the field is not equal to an empty string. This adds the field to the meta query and seems to fix the ordering issue. Screenshot attached showing the modification.
This filter should not be necessary. I've set up a similar View of Products in my local environment and was able to replicate the same problem, so I suspect this is a bug in the current software. I am escalating to my 2nd tier support team for additional investigation, and I'll let you know what I find out.
FYI I bumped up the memory allocation in the Test environment by adding this code to wp-config.php, because I ran into some fatal errors related to memory during testing:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M');
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
Feel free to remove that code or adjust as needed.
