Reply To: Sort Taxonomy terms

• John Huebner

• September 7, 2014 at 11:53 pm

I don’t think there is any automatic way to do this. The way I do it is that I add a field to the term editor page, usually called something like “sort_order”.
Then my code for sorting them will look something like this:

$taxonomy = 'my_taxonomy';
$args = array(); // whatever arguments you're using
$terms = get_terms($taxonomy, $args);
$count = count($terms);
for ($i=0; $i<$count; $i++) {
  $terms[$i]->sort_order = get_field('sort_order', $taxonomy.'_'.$terms[$i]->term_id;
}
usort($terms, 'my_sort_terms_function';

the sorting function looks something like this:

function my_sort_terms_function($a, $b) {
  // this function expects that items to be sorted are objects and
  // that the property to sort by is $object->sort_order
  if ($a->sort_order == $b->sort_order) {
    return 0;
  } elseif ($a->sort_order < $b->sort_order) {
    return -1;
  } else {
    return 1;
  }
}