Dave Jesch

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Looks like you nailed it.

Turns out there’s a plugin that is installed that I didn’t know of: Taxonomy Terms Order. This has a filter that is forcing the ordering to ‘t.term_order’ for any taxonomy query.

I’m helping someone else resolve this issue. I’ll check with him and see if this plugin can be removed. If not, the filter I have that is resetting the orderby seems to do the trick for the query in question.

Thanks for solving the mystery!

Hi Bcworkz,

Thanks for your input. It’s possible there is another filter causing interference, I’ll look into that and report back.

Hi Amras, thanks for taking a look.

Yup, I did read the codex. In fact, it says that the default value for parent is 0.

I tried removing the parent from the args as you suggested and it still isn’t working. The code now looks like this:

$args = array(
  'orderby' => 'name',
  'order' => 'ASC');
$categories = get_categories( $args );

I should clarify: the get_categories() call works and returns the correct categories. It’s just not returning the data in the order that I’m requesting. Even when specifying ‘orderby’ => ‘name’ the categories are returned in term_order rather than by name. Only using the filter and forcing the ordering to ‘t.name’ causes it to sort in the desired order.