[Plugin: Get Posts] Setting default orderby and order does not work

The “Get Posts” plugin has a default ‘orderby’ => ‘date’ and ‘numberposts’ => ’10’ set in the array. Here is the original array provided with the plugin code:

array(
      'numberposts'      => '10',
      'offset'           => '',
      'category'         => '',
      'category_name'    => '',
      'tag'              => '',
      'orderby'          => 'date',
      'order'            => '',
      'include'          => '',
      'exclude'          => '',
      'meta_key'         => '',
      'meta_value'       => '',
      'post_type'        => '',
      'post_status'      => '',
      'post_parent'      => '',
      'nopaging'         => '',
      'ul_class'         => 'get_posts_class',
      'fields'           => 'post_title',
      'fields_classes'   => 'post_title_class',
      'fields_make_link' => 'true'),
    $args );

If I change the ‘numberposts’ default to 8, the new default value works. However, if I change the default ‘orderby’ or default ‘order’ to anything else, it does not work. Here is an example of the code for the array I’m trying to create:

array(
      'numberposts'      => '8',
      'offset'           => '',
      'category'         => '',
      'category_name'    => '',
      'tag'              => '',
      'orderby'          => 'menu_order',
      'order'            => 'asc',
      'include'          => '',
      'exclude'          => '',
      'meta_key'         => '',
      'meta_value'       => '',
      'post_type'        => '',
      'post_status'      => '',
      'post_parent'      => '',
      'nopaging'         => '',
      'ul_class'         => 'get_posts_class',
      'fields'           => 'post_title',
      'fields_classes'   => 'post_title_class',
      'fields_make_link' => 'true'),
    $args );

If I add the ‘orderby’ and ‘order’ I want into the shortcode, it works perfectly:

[get_posts tag="beaches" numberposts=8 orderby="menu_order" order="asc"]

But if I try and use the default values:

[get_posts tag="beaches"]

Only the default ‘numberposts’ works. Any ideas?

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