[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34996: Ordering taxonomies by term meta

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#34996: Ordering taxonomies by term meta
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 Reporter:  eherman24    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Taxonomy     |     Version:  4.4
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * keywords:  2nd-opinion dev-feedback => needs-patch
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review => Future Release


Comment:

 I am not a big fan of the 'meta_key' parameter in our other query methods;
 I think it's a legacy param from before we had `meta_query`, etc. I agree
 that it would be nice to add the ability to sort by the results of a meta
 query, but I wonder if we could get away with only adding named-key
 support, as introduced in WP 4.2 or 4.3 (I forget which):

 {{{
 $terms = get_terms( 'my_tax', array(
     'meta_query' => array(
         'mq_clause_1' => array( ... ),
         'mq_clause_2' => array( ... ),
         'relation' => 'OR',
     ),
     'orderby' => 'mq_clause_1',
 ) );
 }}}

 'meta_key' ends up getting translated to this anyway. Is this too opaque a
 syntax?

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