WP terms doesn’t sort

  • Hello,

    I am trying to get sorted terms filtered by custom term meta.

        $parent_term_id = 60;
    $cat_args = array(
        'parent' => $parent_term_id,
        'orderby' => 'DATE',
        'order' => 'ASC',
        'meta_key' => 'created',
        'meta_type' => 'DATE'
    );
    $terms =  get_terms('product_cat', $cat_args);

    I got these terms filtered and it returns only with ‘created’ meta value. However, if I print term meta values (‘created’), I got

    
[“2021-12-20”][“2021-11-03”][“2022-05-03”][“2022-02-18”][“2021-11-26”][“2020-10-27”]

    Which is not ordered by date. What is wrong in my query?

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  • When you are telling the query how to order, there’s no value for ‘DATE’ to oder by. What you are trying to order by is a meta value, not a term value (terms don’t have datesby default, so you can’t just order by date anyway).

    Looking at the proper arguments for that function, you want to order by ‘meta_value’:

    $cat_args = array(
    'parent' => $parent_term_id,
    'orderby' => 'meta_value', // May also be meta_value_num if the values are numeric
    'order' => 'ASC',
    'meta_key' => 'created',
    'meta_type' => 'DATE'
   );
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