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I’ve run into a bit of a roadblock in my customization of the Groups page. I have created a custom ‘Order By’ drop down item and leveraged the ‘Group Meta Queries: Usage Example’ example posted here on BuddyPress to create a custom ‘Order By’ option based on a custom field (‘meta_key’ = ‘launch-date’) I created. Everything up until that point is working beautifully. I display only Groups with a populated ‘launch-date’ field.

What I’d like to do is take it one step further. I’d like to take results and order them by the value in the ‘launch-date’ field in ascending order.

I know this is possible via WP_Query so I’m hoping it’s possible in BuddyPress. 🙂

Below is my code snippet. Hoping for a bit of input on where I may be going wrong.

$launch_date_querystring[‘meta_query’] = array(
array(
‘key’ => ‘launch-date’,
‘value’ => ”,
‘type’ => ‘date’,
‘compare’ => ‘!=’,
),
‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’,
‘meta_key’ => ‘launch-date’,
‘order’ => ‘ASC’
);