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Non-empty events sorted by event date and other posts below in Bricks

Updated on 15 Jan 2024

Consider a scenario where you are showing posts from multiple post types namely post, event and game in a single query.

Also, events have an event_date custom field created using ACF.

By default, all the posts are ordered by date published in descending order.

Ex.:

Notice how there's no event date set for Event 6.

Requirement: Exclude the empty events and order the non-empty events by event date at the top, with the rest of the items of other post types below.

Like this:

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Here's how

Select the element on which query loop is enabled.

Select the post types in the query settings.

Turn on "Query editor (PHP)".

Paste:

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