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Wordpress: Sort Order by Custom Field for specific Category

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Put this before the loop in archive.php to have posts in the archive for category '26' sorted by custom field 'date'.
Assign sortable values like '090501' or '2009-05-01' to those fields when editing posts and your Upcoming Events will be sorted by the future date at which they will take place.

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  1. <?php if (is_category('26')) { $posts = query_posts($query_string. '&orderby=meta_value&meta_key=date&order=DESC' ); } ?>

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