Orderby menu_order doesn't work

Question

My code is:

$sliders = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'sliders', 'showposts' => '10', 'orderby' => 'menu_order', 'order' => 'ASC', 'countries'=> 'Default', 'supress_filters' => true, 'meta_query' => array(

But wordpress orderby post_date :(

 [query] => Array
    (
        [post_type] => sliders
        [showposts] => 10
        [orderby] => menu_order
        [order] => ASC
        [countries] => ES
        [supress_filters] => 1
        [meta_query] => Array
            (
                [0] => Array
                    (
                        [key] => _sectors
                        [value] => 540
                        [compare] => IN
                    )

            )

    )

[request] =>  SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS  wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts  INNER JOIN wp_term_relationships ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_term_relationships.object_id) INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id)  JOIN wp_icl_translations t ON wp_posts.ID = t.element_id
                    AND t.element_type = 'post_sliders' JOIN wp_icl_languages l ON t.language_code=l.code AND l.active=1 WHERE 1=1  AND ( wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id IN (16) ) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'sliders' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'private') AND ( (wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_sectors' AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS CHAR) IN ('540')) ) AND t.language_code='es' GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10

Answer 1

Use this instead. It worked for me

'sort_column' => 'menu_order'

Answer 2

First, it's suppress_filters with two P's.

Secondly, 'countries' => 'default' doesn't do anything in a normal query, so I suspect you have something else going on code-wise.

Third, when I do your query with this code

$sliders = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'sliders', 
'showposts' => '10', 
'orderby' => 'menu_order', 
'order' => 'ASC', 
'countries'=> 'Default', 
'suppress_filters' => true, 
'meta_query' => array( array(
    'key' => '_sectors',
    'value' => 540,
    'compare' => 'IN',
    ) ),
) );

I get this result:

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_postmeta ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_postmeta.post_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type = 'sliders' AND (wp_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'future' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'draft' OR wp_posts.post_status = 'pending' OR wp_posts.post_author = 1 AND wp_posts.post_status = 'private') AND ( (wp_postmeta.meta_key = '_sectors' AND CAST(wp_postmeta.meta_value AS CHAR) IN ('540')) ) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY wp_posts.menu_order ASC LIMIT 0, 10

Notice that the order by menu order is correct.

Answer 3

I think (could be wrong) the problem is only pages have menu_order. Also, when you registered the post_type did you set it to 'hierarchical' => true, ?