I need to order parent terms by their children count:

function sort_terms_by_children_count ( $terms ) {
    $sort_terms_by_children_count = array();
    foreach($terms as $term) {
        $count = count (get_terms( $terms, array( 'child_of' => $term->term_id, 'hide_empty' => false, ) ));
        $sort_terms_by_children_count[$count] = $term;
}
    sort($sort_terms_by_children_count);

return $sort_terms_by_children_count;
}

and use it like:

$terms = get_terms('product_cat');
$terms = $sort_terms_by_children_count($terms);

It doesn't work, outputs only one term.

I need to order parent terms by their children count:

function sort_terms_by_children_count ( $terms ) {
    $sort_terms_by_children_count = array();
    foreach($terms as $term) {
        $count = count (get_terms( $terms, array( 'child_of' => $term->term_id, 'hide_empty' => false, ) ));
        $sort_terms_by_children_count[$count] = $term;
}
    sort($sort_terms_by_children_count);

return $sort_terms_by_children_count;
}

and use it like:

$terms = get_terms('product_cat');
$terms = $sort_terms_by_children_count($terms);

It doesn't work, outputs only one term.

• taxonomy
• terms
• order
• sort

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1 Answer 1

there should be no need for this function, you could use $args passed to the get_terms. See: https://codex.wordpress/es:Function_Reference/get_terms

get_terms('product_cat', array('orderby' => 'count'));

Cheers!