I have a Custom Post Type 'my_cpt' and a custom taxonomy 'types' which has several terms, all of which have posts.
I want to do is be able to control both the order of the groups (terms from my custom taxonomy 'types') AND the order of the Items (posts from 'my_cpt' custom post type and the term of the group it is in) within each group by using menu_order in the admin area.
I have this code below (see far bottom) which gets me as far as this:
Taxonomy term 1
- Item 1 from taxonomy term 1
- Item 2 from taxonomy term 1
Taxonomy term 2
- Item 1 from taxonomy term 2
- Item 2 from taxonomy term 2
- Item 3 from taxonomy term 2
Taxonomy term 3
- Item 1 from taxonomy term 3
I can change the order of the groups (Taxonomy term 1, 2, 3 etc) by name if I change:
$custom_terms = get_terms('surface_bonding_types');
to
$custom_terms = get_terms('surface_bonding_types', 'orderby=name&order=DESC');
So I know the orderby is working for the groups. But I can't see a way to change the order of my Taxonomy terms as there is no 'Order' field as I have with Pages in the admin.
I am completely unable to change the order of the Items within each group. I thought that adding orderby and order parameters to the tax_query array would do the job but it doesn't do anything.
$custom_terms = get_terms('types');
foreach($custom_terms as $custom_term) {
wp_reset_query();
$args = array('post_type' => 'my_cpt',
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => 'types',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => $custom_term->slug,
),
),
);
$loop = new WP_Query($args);
if($loop->have_posts()) {
echo '<h3>'.$custom_term->name.'</h3>';
?>
<ul>
<?php
while($loop->have_posts()) : $loop->the_post();
?>
<li>
<a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">
<?php echo the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail' ); ?>
<?php echo get_the_title(); ?>
</a>
</li>
<?php
endwhile;
?>
</ul>
<?php
}
}
wp_reset_query();
I could what I want to achieve by running multiple wp_query on the page, one for each term but I would end up with 10 almost identical queries on the page. This code feels really close, I just can't quite get the last piece of logic. Any help greatly appreciated.
