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Sorting a Cloneable Meta Box Group by a Date Subfield in Bricks

In the past we showed how to order Meta Box group rows in Bricks by a text-type subfield here.

This Pro tutorial covers the same, but for a Date Picker subfield.

Consider this field group:

and in the post editor of a sample Page:

With the query type set to this Meta Box group in the Bricks editor, the default output:

The items will be in the same order as they are in the backend.

After implementing this tutorial, the items will be output in ascending (or descending if you choose to) order of the offer date i.e., the oldest first. Like this:

Add the following in child theme's functions.php (w/o the opening PHP tag) or a code snippets plugin:

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