[wp-hackers] get_posts() meta_key numeric search

[Mike Little]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Christopher Ross <cross at thisismyurl.com>wrote:

> I'm calling a get_posts() function using the meta_key to sort but it's
> returning the 1's out of order at the moment. For example:
>
> $args = array(
>        'numberposts'     => 30,
>        'meta_key'        => 'image_score_' . $user_id,
>        'orderby'         => 'meta_value',
>        'order'                 => 'DESC',
>    );
>
> Will return 99,98,9,100,10,1 instead of 100,99,98,10,9,1
>
>
Use
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num'


To force a numerical comparison (default is string comparison).


Mike

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