wp-includes/class-wp-term-query.php:1022Generate the ORDER BY clause for an 'orderby' param that is potentially related to a meta query.
$orderby_rawstringstring protected function parse_orderby_meta( $orderby_raw ) { $orderby = ''; // Tell the meta query to generate its SQL, so we have access to table aliases. $this->meta_query->get_sql( 'term', 't', 'term_id' ); $meta_clauses = $this->meta_query->get_clauses(); if ( ! $meta_clauses || ! $orderby_raw ) { return $orderby; } $allowed_keys = array(); $primary_meta_key = null; $primary_meta_query = reset( $meta_clauses ); if ( ! empty( $primary_meta_query['key'] ) ) { $primary_meta_key = $primary_meta_query['key']; $allowed_keys[] = $primary_meta_key; } $allowed_keys[] = 'meta_value'; $allowed_keys[] = 'meta_value_num'; $allowed_keys = array_merge( $allowed_keys, array_keys( $meta_clauses ) ); if ( ! in_array( $orderby_raw, $allowed_keys, true ) ) { return $orderby; } switch ( $orderby_raw ) { case $primary_meta_key: case 'meta_value': if ( ! empty( $primary_meta_query['type'] ) ) { $orderby = "CAST({$primary_meta_query['alias']}.meta_value AS {$primary_meta_query['cast']})"; } else { $orderby = "{$primary_meta_query['alias']}.meta_value"; } break; case 'meta_value_num': $orderby = "{$primary_meta_query['alias']}.meta_value+0"; break; default: if ( array_key_exists( $orderby_raw, $meta_clauses ) ) { // $orderby corresponds to a meta_query clause. $meta_clause = $meta_clauses[ $orderby_raw ]; $orderby = "CAST({$meta_clause['alias']}.meta_value AS {$meta_clause['cast']})"; } break; } return $orderby; }Introduced in 4.6.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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