[wp-hackers] How to change the sorting order by of a custom post type's rss feed?

[Simon Blackbourn]

> I've been trying to setup a (rss) feed for my custom post type.
> This works using the url parameter post_type.
>
> For example:
> http://wordpress.com/feed/?post_type=my_custom_post_type
>
> However I would like to change the sorting of the custom posts based on a
> meta key and value.
>
> I expected something like this:
> http://wordpress.com/feed/?post_type=my_custom_post_type&order_by=meta_key
>
> Can somebody point me in the right direction on how to achieve this?
>
>

i might be wrong, but wouldn't the sorting of posts in a feed be done by the
user's feed reader, by looking at the date field in the xml? if so, you
wouldn't have any control over it from within worpdress.