Get Custom Taxonomy Terms by Date

Question

I'm trying to get a list of custom taxonomy terms by date (or possibly slug). What I need is the NEWEST term and it's permalink in a custom taxonomy. I've been trying the code below but it's returning the same term over and over again. The goal is to generate a link to the archive page for the newest term in this taxonomy, which happens to be a bunch of journal editions; so a link to the "Latest Edition."

// latest edition
$taxonomies = array( 
    'jjm_editions'
);              
$args = array(
    'orderby'    => 'date', 
    'order'      => 'DSC',
    'hide_empty' => true,
    'number'     => '3'
);              
$terms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
    if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
        continue;
    }
    echo '<a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a>';
}

Even if I change ASC to DESC, I always get the first edition.

Edit: I know "number" should be '1'. I have it at three to see what it would output. It still only outputs one term, Edition 6.

Answer 1

This is the working code:

// latest edition
$taxonomies = array( 
    'jjm_editions'
);              
$args = array(
    'orderby'    => 'ID', 
    'order'      => 'DESC',
    'hide_empty' => false,
    'number'     => '1'
);              
$terms = get_terms($taxonomies, $args);
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
    $term_link = get_term_link( $term );
    if ( is_wp_error( $term_link ) ) {
        continue;
    }
    echo '<a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a>';
}