wp_get_nav_menu_items order doesn’t work

May 14, 20231 Views

I am using this function

$args = array (
   'order' => 'DESC',
);

$items = wp_get_nav_menu_items( $custom_menu, $args );

then, if I change args to

$args = array (
   'order' => 'ASC',
);

and the result is still the same.

Anybody have suggestion?

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1 comment

Anonymous says:

May 14, 2023 at 8:31 pm
When you look in WordPress source code, you will find reason for that. On line 538 of nav-menu.php you’ll find:
```
if ( ARRAY_A == $args['output'] ) {
    $GLOBALS['_menu_item_sort_prop'] = $args['output_key'];
        usort($items, '_sort_nav_menu_items');
        $i = 1;
        foreach( $items as $k => $item ) {
            $items[$k]->$args['output_key'] = $i++;
        }
}
```
I didn’t check why, but it looks like this sorting doesn’t work right. The easiest thing you can do to fixthis is to change output type to disable this sorting.

So when you add 'output'=>OBJECT or 'output'=>ARRAY_N to your args it should work just fine.

PS. It’s even known bug: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15533

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