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  • December 29, 2021 at 12:16 AM #32898
    mschraedermschraeder
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    I have a custom post type, "Technical Documents", and have all these posts listed using a checkbox_list field type for the user to select which posts to display. However, there are 100+ posts and it would be easier to use if they were in alphabetical order. Is there a way to do this?

    Thank you!

    My code:

    $meta_boxes[] = [
        'title'   => esc_html__( 'Technical PDFs to Display', 'online-generator' ),
        'id'      => 'selectpdf',
    'post_types' => ['product'],
        'context' => 'normal',
'fields'  => [
    [
        'type'       => 'post',
        'name'       => esc_html__( 'Select Product PDFs', 'online-generator' ),
        'desc'       => 'online-generator',
        'id'         => $prefix . 'product_pdfs',
        'post_type'  => 'technicaldocuments',
        'field_type' => 'checkbox_list'
    ],
],
];
    December 29, 2021 at 12:34 PM #32903
    Long NguyenLong Nguyen
    Moderator

    Hi,

    You can use the setting query_args to pass the arguments to the post query to order posts by alphabetical. For example:

            'fields' => [
            [
                'name'       => __( 'Post', 'your-text-domain' ),
                'id'         => $prefix . 'post_kyojjvjwxa',
                'type'       => 'post',
                'post_type'  => ['post'],
                'field_type' => 'checkbox_list',
                'query_args' => [
                    'order' => 'ASC',
                ],
            ],
        ],

    Please get more details on the documentation
    https://docs.metabox.io/fields/post/#sample-code
    https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#order-orderby-parameters

    December 30, 2021 at 12:38 AM #32910
    mschraedermschraeder
    Participant

    I added 'orderby'=> 'title', in the 'query_args' and it worked perfectly! Thanks for the quick help.

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