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I am builing a search engine where I need to search in 2 different taxonomies and sort them by slug. I got this code to do so.

$search = sanitize_text_field( $_POST[ 'search' ] );
$content = '';
$terms = get_terms(array(
    'taxonomy' => array('apartments','houses'),
    'search' => $search,
    'orderby' => 'name',
    'order'             => 'DESC',
    'hide_empty' => true
));

Right now the result is:

  • Apartment A
  • Apartment B
  • House A
  • House B

and i would like it to be like that:

  • Apartment A
  • House A
  • Apartment B
  • House B

Any idea as I run out of at the moment ;) I would like to avoid JS at that moment.

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  • I'm unsure what kind of order that is, is it reverse order aka A esuoH? This ordering doesn't make sense, are the terms grouped together in some other way that isn't being shared?
    – Tom J Nowell
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 18:25
  • I don't think there's an orderby parameter that would order the results as you've described. But you could use usort to implement custom order after the terms have been retrieved
    – admcfajn
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 18:32
  • @admcfajn That was a great idea. This helped do the trick.
    – Mastafu
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 19:33
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    Awesome, glad you got it working @Mastafu
    – admcfajn
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 21:38

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$keys = array_column($terms, 'slug');
array_multisort($keys, SORT_ASC, $terms);

That did the trick and let me sort terms in that muli array.

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