wordpress query will only orderby menu_order

admin · Oct 10, 2022

I'm trying to order a

Code:

WP_query

by

Code:

meta_value

but wordpress doesn't seem to want to change the

Code:

orderby

The query is as follows

Code:

$popular_args = array(
    'post_type' =&gt; 'post',
    'post_status' =&gt; 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' =&gt; -1,
    'meta_key' =&gt; 'wpb_post_views_count',
    'orderby' =&gt; 'meta_value_num',
    'order' =&gt; 'ASC',
);

$popular_query = new WP_query( $popular_args );

The resulting query is as follows

Code:

WP_Query Object ( [query_vars] =&gt; Array ( 
    [post_type] =&gt; post 
    [post_status] =&gt; publish 
    [posts_per_page] =&gt; -1 
    [meta_key] =&gt; wpb_post_views_count 
    [orderby] =&gt; menu_order 
    [order] =&gt; ASC 
    [error] =&gt; 
    [m] =&gt; 
    [p] =&gt; 0 
    [post_parent] =&gt; 
    [subpost] =&gt; 
    ....

You should notice that the

Code:

orderby

value in the query has been set to

Code:

menu_order

Even though I spesifically set it to

Code:

meta_value_num

I've been reseting the query and post data all over the place to try and get the query to play nice by am now out of ideas.

Any help would be awesome

Ps: the query about is being called in a file that is

Code:

required

in the

Code:

sidebar

which is inturn called using the

Code:

get_sidebar()

wordpress function

wordpress query will only orderby menu_order

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