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Simon Wheatley

Product Management, WordPress, and some other odd things

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About Me

I’m a Product Manager and ex- WordPress developer. I used to run Code for the People, who were acquired by Automattic in 2014. I now work in the WordPress.com VIP team, we make it so that some pretty huge companies can use WordPress right in the middle of all things digital.

Want to follow me on Twitter? I’m @simonwheatley. More about me on the about me page.

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  • ProductTank Manchester

Come and work with me!

The VIP team at Automattic is a great place to work. We’re looking for all kinds of colleagues to throw their hat into the ring with us… from VIP Developers, Platform Engineers, to Sales Executives and Relationship Managers; take a look at our careers page.

You’ve got a never-ending resource of inspiration just in front of you every day – you can see completely different approaches to building web applications on top of WordPress and you can see the way how they work in real life.
– my colleague, David Biňovec

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Tag: order by

Ordering post meta value, numerically

I have a client who wants to show a list of their posts ordered by the numerical value of a post meta field (custom fields are referred to as post meta data in the WordPress code, so I’ll be following that convention from now on). Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way to do this using query_posts or by creating a new WP_Query object, which makes life a little trickier. Continue reading Ordering post meta value, numerically

Posted on July 31, 2009March 28, 2015Categories WorkTags custom fields, Development, mysql, order by, post meta, sorting numerically, WordPress, wp_query19 Comments on Ordering post meta value, numerically
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