chriddell

Thanks for being so clear Danny.

Could you point me in the direction of which hooks I should be using?

Thanks,
Chris

I have a custom function which allows me to order by date. See below:

function wpse147412_order_terms_by_post_date( $pieces, $taxonomies, $args ) {
  global $wpdb;

  if ( 'post_date' !== $args['orderby'] ) {
    return $pieces;
  }

  $args = wp_parse_args( $args, array( 'post_types' => 'post' ) );

  $pieces['fields']   = 'DISTINCT ' . $pieces['fields'];
  $pieces['join']    .= " JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships AS tr ON tr.term_taxonomy_id = tt.term_taxonomy_id";
  $pieces['join']    .= " JOIN $wpdb->posts AS p ON p.ID = tr.object_id";
  $pieces['where']   .= " AND p.post_type IN ('" . implode( "', '", (array) $args['post_types'] ) . "')";
  $pieces['orderby']  = 'ORDER BY p.post_date';

  return $pieces;
}
add_filter( 'terms_clauses', 'wpse147412_order_terms_by_post_date', 10, 3 );

You’re great, thank you.

Setting pause="true" stops the pages loading in at all (on scroll), though. No biggie, I can fix with some JS anyway.