[wp-hackers] Querying users, orderby last name field?

[Josh Pollock]

Otto-

Works like a charm. I ended up needing to add `'fields'=>'all_with_meta'`
to the array so I could use 'last_name' and 'first_name' in the return
array.

Looks like this:
$users = new WP_User_Query(array(
   'meta_key'=>'last_name',
   'orderby'=>'meta_value',
 'fields'=>'all_with_meta'
));

Thanks,
Josh


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Josh Pollock <jpollock412 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > There doesn't seem to be an orderby option in WP_User_Query to orderby
> last
> > name field. This leaves me wondering why not and what the most direct way
> > to do so would be.
> >
>
>
> Does this not work?
>
> new WP_User_Query(array(
>    'meta_key'=>'last_name',
>    'orderby'=>'meta_value',
> ));
>
> The last name is not a field that exists in the users table. It's a meta
> field. So you have to specify it and then order by the value of it.
>
> -Otto
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