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Thanks tdgu – I had read on some other forum responses that setting the hierarchical setting to false did the trick for most people, however my custom post type is already specifying a non-hierarchical relationship, so specifying it here again is in fact redundant. That being said switching it to true, or removing it entirely both had no affect.

nsp-code: Not sure where this autosort you speak of is set? Would this be a setting in the custom post type or is this an argument I can pass within my query? If so can you let me know what the proper syntax is? I’ve tried ‘autosort’=>false and ‘auto_sort’ => false

In re. to your suggestion about plugins – the only 3 plugins I’m using are Types, Post Types Order, and Contact Form 7.

REVISION:

It appears the sort is somewhat working, but is behaving strangely. Again, my homepage_billboards custom type is working exactly as expected. I have two other post types that are behaving differently.

I have my items sorted as so:
(1)Lorem
(2)Ipsum
(3)Dolor

And they appear on my site as follows:
(3)Dolor
(1)Lorem
(2)Ipsum

Also, if I change my ‘order’ from ‘ASC’ to ‘DESC’ it has no affect.

“or do they just need to be there because wordpress requires all kinds of extra junk to make things work”

Yes, very much so. I’m not really sure what they’re doing either to be honest, but if you remove that array it doesn’t display anything.

Hey db9429!

Yes, this was from an old project, but I can still try to help you if I can.

For each custom post type you will need 2 templates – 1 (television.php) that will spit out the list of articles for that post type, and 1 (single-television.php) that will spit out the entire article. My custom post type was called ‘television’ for the client’s tv appearances.

So for the television.php, right under the opening php tag, you have to include a comment that names the template according to the name of your custom post type, like so:

/*
Template Name: Television
*/

This will allow you to go into the page that you’ve created to list your articles and select the template name that you’ve just created. Then I did the following:

<?php
                                    <!--begin loop - select the post type by name-->
                                    query_posts( array( 'post_type' => 'television', order_by => 'meta_value&meta_key=date', order => 'desc') );
                                    if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
                                  ?>
                                   <!--output the content-->
                                    <p><a href = '<?php the_permalink(); ?>'><h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2></a>

				    <strong><?php echo(types_render_field("show", array("arg1"=>"val1","arg2"=>"val2"))); ?></strong><br />
				    <?php echo(types_render_field("date", array("arg1"=>"val1","arg2"=>"val2"))); ?></p>

                                  <?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

Now on the single-television.php, I did the following:

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<!--Video Type-->
					<h2>Field One <?php echo(types_render_field("fieldOne", array("arg1"=>"val1","arg2"=>"val2"))); ?></h2>
					<strong>Field Two: </strong><?php echo(types_render_field("field-two", array("arg1"=>"val1","arg2"=>"val2"))); ?><br />

					<!--Video Content-->
					<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'single' ); ?>

					<?php
						// If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template
						if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() )
							comments_template( '', true );
					?>

				<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

Unfortunately I don’t remember how I linked the appropriate single template type to the corresponding post type. I don’t believe this was done in the same way with the comment at the top of the file. Might have to do some googling for this one.

So in summary, you want to create a loop `<?php
query_posts( array( ‘post_type’ => ‘television’, order_by => ‘meta_value&meta_key=date’, order => ‘desc’) );
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
?>that make sure you have posts to display and to reference the custom post type by name. If you want to output any fields, you use this line of code:<?php echo(types_render_field(“field-name”, array(“arg1″=>”val1″,”arg2″=>”val2”))); ?>` and just replace field-name with your field name.

Hope this helps!

Update:
I realized that I have to click the “Save All Changes” button in order for the alt text to take affect. In my media library now, the alternate text is displaying as I want it to, but in the markup the alt text is still just the url of the image. What is going on!?

Thanks esmi!

What I ended up doing instead of by order, I set the top navigation to display only top-level items and not it’s children:

<?php wp_nav_menu( array( ‘theme_location’ => ‘primary’, ‘depth’ => 1,) ); ?>

Sorry, I should have been more clear.
I’m using custom post types, and by extension using a custom date field.
I don’t want to display the date that the post was created, but the custom date that the field specifies, since the client is backlogging pre-existing articles.

Thanks for your response and thanks in advance to anyone else who can offer help!

Hey bcworkz, thanks a lot for the help! It did exactly what I wanted.
My next question: how do I display only posts that do not belong to a custom post type in another section of the page?