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Sorting custom posts by alphabetical order

Hello,
I have built a WP site for a small non-profit.

On the "Who We Are" page, there are different lists of names: staff members, advisory boards, etc.

I have set this page up as a series of custom posts.

The client would like to order these lists alphabetically by last name.

I did some research and found a way to customize the loop that should alphabatize by last name.

However, I can only get the loop to output one name: it is not displaying all the names in the list.

My questions are: what am I missing? And, is there a more elegant way to do this?

The page in question is here: http://babybuggy.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/
The test list is towards the bottom of the page; it is called "Friends Alpha Test".

The code I used is below.

Thank you very much!

<h4>Friends Alpha Test</h4>
              <?php
$lastname = array();
$posts = get_posts( array('post_type' => 'people', 'whoweare' => 'friends', 'numberposts' => 100) );

foreach( $posts as $key => $post ) {

      $lastname[$key] = array_pop( explode( ' ', $post->post_title ) );
}
array_multisort( $lastname, SORT_ASC, $posts );

                   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
                  ?>
<li><?php the_title(); ?></li>
<li><?php the_content(); ?></li>
<?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>
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EMB01

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rjunk

ASKER

Thanks, EMB01. I did as you asked, though I am a PHP nitwit, so I may have bungled this a bit. Still, it returns a full list of names, albeit with much other db info:
http://babybuggy.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/

This is the current call:
<?php
$lastname = array();
$posts = get_posts( array('post_type' => 'people', 'whoweare' => 'friends', 'numberposts' => 100) );

var_dump($posts); {

      $lastname[$key] = array_pop( explode( ' ', $post->post_title ) );
}
array_multisort( $lastname, SORT_ASC, $posts );

                   if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
                  ?>
<li><?php the_title(); ?></li>
<li><?php the_content(); ?></li>

<?php endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query(); ?>

rjunk

ASKER

Changing the call from get_posts to query_posts did the trick.