Title: Default order does not work
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Default order does not work

 *  [JorritSchippers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorritschippers/)
 * (@jorritschippers)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-order-does-not-work/)
 * `global_post_clauses` has an error:
 * `$categories_orderby = $this->get_order( $this->oval('categories_orderby', 'default'));`
   will never return `default` because `get_order` can’t return default.
 * I suggest changing the implementation to:
 *     ```
       public function global_post_clauses( $clauses, $query ) {
       		$homepage_orderby =  $this->oval( 'homepage_orderby', 'default' );
   
       		$categories_orderby = $this->oval( 'categories_orderby', 'default' );
   
       		if( $homepage_orderby != 'default' AND is_home() ) {
       			$clauses['orderby'] = $this->db->posts . '.' . $this->get_order($homepage_orderby) . ' ' .$this->oval('homepage_order', 'desc');
       			return $clauses;
       		}
   
       		if( $categories_orderby != 'default' AND is_category() ) {
       			$clauses['orderby'] = $this->db->posts . '.' . $this->get_order($categories_orderby) . ' ' .$this->oval('categories_order', 'desc');
       			return $clauses;
       		}
   
       		return $clauses;
       	}
       ```
   
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