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I am having an issue sorting by the EE date field. I have a channel “news” that has a few custom fields. I had a custom date field but realized sorting by that was erratic at best, so I deleted it and we edited the EE date field on all the entries.

Now here’s the weird part, how that I am sorting by the EE date field, it shows about half the entries sorted by date, then starts over with the other half.

Here is my channel entries tag:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" orderby="entry_date" sort="desc" limit="100" show_expired='yes' dynamic="yes" }
<div class="areaattractions_content">
 <h3><a href="http://{title_permalink=">{title}</a></h3>
<p> {entry_date format="%F %d %Y"}<br />
 {news_teaser}<br />
</div><br />
{/exp:channel:entries}

Note: I have tried “date” and “entry_date” in the exp:channel:entries tag and both produce the exact same results.

Below is the output of the query above:

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Check out the dates as you scroll… weird!

Anyone seen this before? Is it a bug? I have completely cleared the EE caches in the last day or two, so that doesn’t appear to be the issue. I’m at a loss as to what I can try.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Hi Brandon,

Instead of using the parameter orderby=“entry_date” use orderby=“date”. Take a reference from here http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#orderby

Best Regards,

Hi Brandon,

Instead of using the parameter orderby=“entry_date” use orderby=“date”. Take a reference from here http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html#orderby

Best Regards,

Thanks for the suggestion, but as I mentioned above I have tried the EE query using both “date” and “entry_date” and both return the exact same thing.

Hi Brandon,

Sorry I didn’t notice your note as mentioned within the first thread.

Could you check if “Make Entry Sticky” is checked for the entries.

I thought I had checked that before but that was it… they marked a bunch (almost half) of the entries as sticky. Glad to know it’s not a bug, at least. Thanks!

Glad to hear it 😊 .