Ben

I have tried another approach;

The custom post type listed in my results include a custom meta-key (using the wp-types plugin) which is a dropdown select box. The dropdown has two options: Featured or Licensed. I found this code in another thread which allows me to filter results by this custom field:

function order_gmw_results($clauses, $gmwQuery) {
	global $wpdb;

	$clauses['join'] .= " LEFT JOIN {$wpdb->prefix}postmeta AS pmeta ON({$wpdb->prefix}posts.ID = pmeta.post_id AND pmeta.meta_key = 'wpcf-featured-or-licensed')";
	$clauses['orderby'] = "pmeta.meta_value";
	return $clauses;
}
add_filter('gmw_pt_location_query_clauses', 'order_gmw_results',10,2);

This works great, but is is possible to orderby multiple meta-keys so that the results are first sorted by my featured-or-licensed key, then by distance? As it works now the posts are jumbled by distance and appear to be sorted by publish date.

Any help to orderby multiple meta-keys would be very much appreciated!

To explain further on what I’m trying to do ………

I’m creating a Teacher’s Directory where every Teacher has their own post/page within State/Region categories, and parent categories of Country.

On those Country category pages I would like search forms where you can select a State/Region (from a dropdown list) and then Courses Available (from checkboxes). The Courses Available are custom fields and I would like the search function to find results that match ANY of the courses selected – not ALL. In other words, if a user selects Course 1 and Course 2, I would like search results displayed to include Teachers who only teach Course 1 and only teach Course 2.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I could go about this better than with the plugins above, it would be most welcome. 🙂