Custom Loop doesn’t use SCPO order

I’ve been working with WPMU-dev to resolve the issue, see the ticket here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/post-order-not-showing-up/

I am using the following PHP loop:

<?php

if(have_posts()):
global $wp_query;
$args = array_merge( $wp_query->query, array( 'post_type' => 'any' ) );
query_posts( $args );
while(have_posts()) : the_post();

get_template_part('content', get_post_format());

endwhile;
else :
echo '

No Content Found

';
endif;
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

But it isn’t using the order set on the back end… Is there an “orderby” value I need to add to my loop?

Thanks,

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