I have a custom field that I want to use in the orderby field. This field is a price field. When I put in the code to orderby=“price”, it does order it, but not as expected. It doesn’t do it by numerical value, but by character value (I think). So this could be an output for example:

100000
10000000
1010000
110000
134500
200000
2000000

How do I get a numerical sort from lowest to highest?

To do this you would need to enter those numbers would leading 0s, ie:

001
002
003

etc.

There are feature requests for numeric fields, you could find one and add your support to it, too.

so basically, there is no way to do a numerical sort? Obviously I can’t have people enetering in prices with tons of leading zeros.

I think that the feature request may have had some options involving changing the database table for that field, but short of that - not currently without some custom work.

Ah, and I even went and found the feature request for you.  See Robin’s post in there about how she got around it.